March is the first month SNAP recipients must verify that they are meeting expanded work or volunteer requirements. The federal government is raising the work requirement from 55 to 64, and most recipients must now work or volunteer 20 hours a week to keep their benefits.
The child exemption is now dropping from 18 to 14, and exemptions for people experiencing homelessness and with veteran status are also being removed.
In Summit County, 78,000 people receive SNAP benefits. 16,000 of them, or more then 20%, are at risk of being impacted by these new federal requirements…