Sentences with phrase «fingerprinting for food stamp»
The move will leave Arizona as the only state that requires fingerprinting for food stamp access.
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Phelan Bopp says New York State has one of the lowest food stamp participation rates in the nation, with just 68 % of those eligible actually signing up for the program, and she believes part of the reason is the fingerprinting requirement.
Governor Cuomo, in his state of the state speech, says he wants to end what he calls the «stigma» of requiring that New Yorkers who need food stamps be fingerprinted before becoming eligible for benefits.
Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.
Governor Cuomo, speaking by phone to a gathering of advocates for the poor, says he's rescinded a 14 - year - old state regulation that required food stamp recipients be subject to fingerprinting before receiving benefits.
The NYT supports NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn's push to end fingerprinting requirement for food stamps.
He also said that the percentage of people eligible for food stamps who receive them was higher in New York City than in the rest of the state, where fingerprinting is not required.
In his State of the State address on Wednesday, Mr. Cuomo argued that fingerprinting discouraged people who are eligible for food stamps from seeking them.
The city's requirement that food stamp recipients get fingerprinted, a rule aimed at preventing fraud, ultimately deters many eligible people from applying for them.
So among the key goals of the new plan are: to increase local food purchases by the city, expand CSAs, farmer's markets, urban farming and gardens, and food stamp eligibility — and she continues to call on Bloomberg to drop the existing fingerprint requirement for food stamp recipients.