"A report by the Center for Law and Social Policy notes the severe backlog of applications at SSA as a hindrance for long COVID applicants, and others."
Republicans introduced a harmful bill that would raise the age of people subject to time limits in SNAP and expand them to parents of children ages 7-17.
Parker Gilkesson was interviewed to discuss CLASP report about how SNAP supports families with low incomes, but also reinforces racism and structures of oppression.
In this op-ed, Parker Gilkesson addresses the misperceptions surrounding fraud in SNAP and other public benefits programs. She draws on the testimony she offered to a Congressional committee on this topic.
By Emma Loop (Excerpt) “We had to input the wrong information to get the right output. So everything you’re capturing is incorrect,” Gilkesson, who now works as a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy, told the Washington Examiner. “And that’s all…