Food stamp crackdown could cost $40 million

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.