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Pennsylvania has a new website for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), where users can navigate recent changes.
On Sept. 1, new work requirements went into effect for some SNAP users, and others will face new requirements starting in November. The changes were passed with the federal budget bill this summer.
Nearly half a million people in Philadelphia use SNAP benefits.
“Programs like SNAP exist to help people meet the basic need of putting food on their tables so that they can live and thrive,” said Val Arkoosh, Pennsylvania secretary of the Department of Human Services. “These new requirements put in place by Republicans in Washington, D.C., jeopardize this critical resource by creating burdensome red tape for people needing food.”