Bucks County – July 2, 2025 -Senator of State Steve Santarsiero (D-10) issued the following statement today in response to the likely impact of cuts on SNAP benefits in the budget package and congress reconciliation (“Big Beautiful Bill”):
“Thirty -five years ago I was a newborn student in Penn, working in a clinic run by student recipients of food vouchers in the Legal Services offices at the age of 52ND And Chestnut Strets in West Philadelphia. It was there that I met my wife, Ronni, who was a student volunteer, and that’s where I spent my first summer at a law school, dealing with the claims of people who were wrongly refused benefits. Before I graduated, I was a clinic student, I represented dozens of customers, all of whom were able to restore their food vouchers.
Recently, I was thinking about this experience with Washington news that the so -called huge pretty account of Donald Trump would probably cause the benefits of SNAP in Penpania (Snap, which means the program of an additional nutrition assistance program, is the successor of the elderly food program). If the changes proposed in the Act become a law, Pennsylvania will not have the funds necessary to launch the program.
My clients at the food clinic were mainly single mothers who maintained many work. They were part of what economists call working workers. Food yawns, which they received through the state, were the difference between self -feeding and their children or hungry. Therefore, the benefits of definition were not wasted. What’s more, the women who receive them did not commit fraud; They just tried to feed themselves and their children, because their income was not enough to put food on the table. To the extent that any abuse lasted, they were committed by the Old Department of Public Welfare, which managed the program in Pennsylvania, but which too often refused to benefit, because cases of cases did not sufficiently review the recipient’s file.
We live in one of the richest countries on Earth. It is a disgrace that everyone should go to a hungry bed at night, not to mention children who, as they did thirty -five years ago, still constitute the largest group of people who receive the benefits of Snap. As a country, we can and we have to do better. ”
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