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| https://walker.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/walker-praises-sec-perdue-and-usda-rule-create-work-opportunities-snap | Walker Praises Sec. Perdue and USDA Rule to Create Work Opportunities for SNAP Recipients | 2018-12-20 | 2018 | 2018-12 | Republican | House | NC | Mark Walker | W000819 | walker.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, D.C.U.S. RepresentativeMarkWalker (R-N.C.) today released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a proposed ruleintended to move more able-bodied recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to self-sufficiency through the dignity of work: While the Farm Bill gave our agriculture community needed certainty, it also missed a key opportunity to free trapped Americans from a system and cycle of poverty. Every person who cares about those struggling families should applaud this action by Secretary Perdue and the Trump Administration, leading where Congress failed. With the unemployment rate at a generational low, there has never been a better time to help people get off the sidelines and on the path to the American Dream. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the rule "focuses on work-related program requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). The rule would apply to non-disabled people, between the ages of 18 and 49, with no dependents. The rule would not apply to the elderly, the disabled, or pregnant women." USDA also noted that "under current SNAP requirements, ABAWDs must work or participate in an employment program for at least 20 hours a week to continue to receive benefits for more than three months over a 36-month period. States may request to waive the time limit in areas with an unemployment rate above 10 percent or where there are not sufficient jobs,' which current regulations primarily define as an unemployment rate 20 percent above the national average. With today's strong economy, that could include areas with unemployment rates of under 5 percent a rate normally considered to be full employment. In 2016 there were 3.8 million individual ABAWDs on the SNAP rolls, with 2.8 million (or almost 74 percent) of them not working. Walker was a key advocate for work reforms in both the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the 2018 Farm Bill. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |