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Food stamp crackdown could cost $40 million
Thousands of food stamp recipients in Cobb, Gwinnett and Hall counties will lose their food stamps beginning Friday.
Georgia officials are getting big results on a new crackdown on food stamp recipients. The state is demanding that able-bodied, childless adults get a job in order to keep receiving the benefits.
The work mandate only applies to three counties - Gwinnett, Cobb and Hall - but it has already cut the number of such recipients in half in those counties.
State lawmakers are already talking about expanding the work mandate statewide, but The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned that such a move could cost up to $40 million a year.
Read the full story on this controversial issue at http://www.myajc.com/news/news/battle-over-food-stamps-highlights-polarizing-rift/nq86R/
