LRB-1265/P1
SWB:cjs
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Lessner, BB0270 - FoodShare work requirement repeal
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
Public assistance
FSET requirement
Current law requires DHS to require all able-bodied adults, with some limited exceptions, who seek benefits from the FoodShare program to participate in the FoodShare employment and training program, known as FSET, unless they are already employed. This bill eliminates that requirement for able-bodied adults with dependents while retaining the requirement for able-bodied adults without dependents. FoodShare is also known as the food stamp program and the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 49.79 (9) (a) 1g. of the statutes is amended to read:
49.79 (9) (a) 1g. Except as provided in subds. 2. and 3., beginning October 1, 2019, the department shall require, to the extent allowed by the federal government, all able-bodied adults without dependents in this state to participate in the employment and training program under this subsection, except for able-bodied adults without dependents who are employed, as determined by the department. The department may require other able individuals who are 18 to 60 years of age, or a subset of those individuals to the extent allowed by the federal government, who are not participants in a Wisconsin Works employment position to participate in the employment and training program under this subsection.
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