👴👵 Cuts to Food Assistance Looming for OLDER Adults (AARP Article/Advocacy)

[SpringIsHereVA]

FROM THE ARTICLE:

Assistance Looming for Older Adults as Tax Bill Progresses.

Keep vital SNAP benefits intact, AARP tells lawmakers.

By Deirdre van Dyk, AARP. Published May 15, 2025.

Some older adults could lose access to food assistance under new federal legislation that proposes cuts to the program that helps low-income Americans buy groceries.

A Republican plan to slash $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would, for the first time, require adults ages 55 to 64 to meet stringent work requirements and shift responsibility for funding up to 25 percent of SNAP benefits to states.

USE LINK BELOW TO READ THE ARTICLE:

https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2025/cuts-to-snap-benefits.html

[GailL1]

Since the bill DID NOT pass Congress yesterday, it is back at the drawing board.  

Much of the changes in the SNAP program and the Medicaid program is to reverse the some of the [expanded] changes that were put in during the PHE and since - 

[SpringIsHereVA]

[Saturday 5/17/25]

Probably too late to set up something for Senior Citizens but they really NEED to look out for us.

Part of AGING WITH GRACE is being able to buy produce and OTHER healthy food.

SO SAD junk food is CHEAPER than healthy!!!  😭

Yes, yours truly is thinking of trying my hand at growing VEGGIES.  🙄  Lol, IF whatever is OUTSIDE (deers,insects) does NOT eat it before I do.

Take care,

Nicole  👵  (Retirement Forum)