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Lower-Basch, Elizabeth – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2014
This document provides an overview of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Employment and Training (SNAP E&T). SNAP E&T is a funding source that allows states to provide employment and training and related supportive services to individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps)…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Employment Services, Employment Programs
Lower-Basch, Elizabeth – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2013
In a typical month in 2011, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) served 4.3 million low-income young adults ages 18-24, helping them buy needed groceries. This brief report demonstrates the detrimental impact the cuts proposed to SNAP in the House-passed Farm bill (H.R. 3102)--which is now…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Young Adults, Late Adolescents, Budgets
Lower-Basch, Elizabeth – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2008
On February 5, 2008, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final rules implementing changes in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program made by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA). While these rules do not affect the overall statutory limitations on counting education and training toward the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Vocational Education, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients
Lower-Basch, Elizabeth – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2007
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is one of the major sources of funding for services designed to help low-income parents succeed in the workplace. The TANF law limits the degree to which states can count TANF families engaged in education and training activities toward federal work participation rate requirements--an…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Attainment, Block Grants, Welfare Services