MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – The number of Wisconsin adults losing food stamp benefits for not pursuing work totaled 20-thousand from January through June.
About three-thousand lost Food Share benefits in June alone, after using up three months assistance without getting jobs or training required under a state law which took effect in April of last year.
Governor Scott Walker cited the numbers of Food Share recipients who found jobs which totaled more than 14-thousand in the first 15 months of the requirement.
Those people had average wages of 12-dollars per hour while working 32 hours per week.
The law requires able bodied adults ages 18-to-49 to work or train for at least 80 hours per week, in order to keep food stamp benefits after their three month grace period.
