Food Stamp Costs Swelled by States Spending $1 on Heating Aid

 

 Projected to decrease?  Fat chance.

Congressional critics looking to cut the nation’s food stamp bill, which has doubled in the past five years, are pointing to what some say is a loophole in the law:

If a state gives a resident as little as $1 a year in heating assistance, it allows that person’s household to automatically qualify for an average of $1,080 in additional food stamps annually from the federal government.

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