Super Punch: Iowa is "poised to approve some of the nation’s harshest restrictions" on food stamps, and "will need to spend nearly $18 million in administrative costs during the first three years" to do so

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Iowa is "poised to approve some of the nation’s harshest restrictions" on food stamps, and "will need to spend nearly $18 million in administrative costs during the first three years" to do so

The proposed legislation was not a homegrown effort but the product of a network of conservative think tanks pushing similar SNAP restrictions in Kentucky, Kansas, Wisconsin and other states.
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Iowa ended 2022 with a general-fund budget surplus of $1.91 billion. But at the start of the 2023 legislative session, Republicans made clear that limiting access to SNAP was a priority
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Enacting the bill is expected to cost Iowa more than $17 million in the first three years, far more than the $2.2 million the state spends each year to administer SNAP.

The article discusses the think tank.