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Well thank goodness the Obama adminstration is holding fast to the legislative text rather than ignoring it like when it comes to Obamacare provisions they don't like or are politically inconvenient. Gotta make sure the Democratic base of welfare recipients don't have to pay for their fix from their own personal funds. This is exactly why everyone should support the increased taxes that progressives support, they need more money for food stamps after recipients use all their food stamps for pot and get the munchies afterwards else they'll subject us to all the sob stories about how "kids are going hungry."
http://www.wltx.com/story/news/nati...ws-marijuana-purchases-with-welfare/15366335/
The federal government maintains the authority to curb funding to states that allow welfare recipients to use their EBT cards in liquor stores, casinos and strip clubs, but that power doesn't extend to marijuana dispensaries, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell clarified recently.
Responding to a query about the policy by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, Burwell wrote in a letter that current law makes no mention of marijuana shops as establishments where people are prohibited from using benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Right now it's only an issue for the two states that have legalized pot, Colorado and Washington.
Burwell noted that states enjoy the freedom to mold their respective laws to ban welfare cards as appropriate marijuana payment: "In fact states have the flexibility to prevent TANF assistance from being used in any type of establishment they deem inappropriate," she wrote. She pointed out that Colorado lawmakers have already begun crafting legislation to do just that.
Sessions said at the federal level he'll take steps to close what's loosely referred to as the "welfare-for-weed" loophole, introducing a Senate version of the legislation House Republicans penned this spring, which would delegitimize the use of welfare cards or food stamps for marijuana purchase.
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http://www.wltx.com/story/news/nati...ws-marijuana-purchases-with-welfare/15366335/
The federal government maintains the authority to curb funding to states that allow welfare recipients to use their EBT cards in liquor stores, casinos and strip clubs, but that power doesn't extend to marijuana dispensaries, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell clarified recently.
Responding to a query about the policy by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, Burwell wrote in a letter that current law makes no mention of marijuana shops as establishments where people are prohibited from using benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Right now it's only an issue for the two states that have legalized pot, Colorado and Washington.
Burwell noted that states enjoy the freedom to mold their respective laws to ban welfare cards as appropriate marijuana payment: "In fact states have the flexibility to prevent TANF assistance from being used in any type of establishment they deem inappropriate," she wrote. She pointed out that Colorado lawmakers have already begun crafting legislation to do just that.
Sessions said at the federal level he'll take steps to close what's loosely referred to as the "welfare-for-weed" loophole, introducing a Senate version of the legislation House Republicans penned this spring, which would delegitimize the use of welfare cards or food stamps for marijuana purchase.
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