{"id":202195,"date":"2026-02-01T21:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202195"},"modified":"2026-02-01T21:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:56:27","slug":"new-snap-requirements-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/01\/new-snap-requirements-in-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"New SNAP requirements in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Significant changes are now in effect for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously referred to as food stamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healthy adults age 18-64 are now required to work, volunteer or train for at least 80 hours per month to receive SNAP benefits beyond three months in a three-year period. Veterans, those who are homeless and former foster children are no longer exempt. In addition, parents with children 14 and older must meet the requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new work requirements went into effect on Sunday, February , with recipients having to demonstrate proof of meeting work requirements starting March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Significant changes are now in effect for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), previously referred to as food stamps. Healthy adults age 18-64 are now required to work, volunteer or train for at least 80 hours per month to receive SNAP benefits beyond three months in a three-year period. Veterans, those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 00:38:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202196,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202195\/revisions\/202196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}