Eliminating the Three Month Food Stamp Time Limit in 30 Oregon Counties The 1996 federal welfare law limits able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 50 who have no dependents (ABAWDs) to three months’ participation in the Food Stamp Program in a three year period, unless they meet a work requirement or are exempted

News Release The federal government released the 2000 Federal Poverty Guidelines in today’s issue of the Federal Register. The poverty guidelines, sometimes loosely referred to as the “federal poverty level,” define who is officially considered “poor.” The guidelines are adjusted up each year to account for inflation. State and federal agencies use the guidelines to determine

There are two slightly different U.S. federal poverty measures: poverty thresholds, based on the “thrifty food plan” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and poverty guidelines, a simplification of the poverty thresholds used to determine eligibility for a number of programs. The poverty thresholds are established after the year is over, based on the Current

People are not supposed to go hungry in America or in Oregon, but they do. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently estimated that 5.8 percent of all Oregon households live with hunger due to insufficient money for food. Moreover, according to the USDA, an additional 6.8 percent of households in the state survive on