More Arkansans will be subject to food assistance program work requirements starting today, after a panel of legislators approved emergency rules put forward by the Arkansas Department of Human Services Thursday.
The changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) implement work requirements on adult SNAP recipients younger than 64 and without dependents younger than 14 who are capable of working.
Previously, those with dependents 18 or younger and those older than 54 were not subject to SNAP work requirements. That changed as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by Congress over the summer. The work-requirement provisions went into effect when the law was signed, but states had until Nov. 1 to implement the changes…