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Prominent House Republican Asks PA Gov. Corbett To Drop Asset Test For Food Stamps (crooksandliars)

You know it's a bad idea when even a prominent Pennsylvania Republican is
asking Gov. Tom Corbett not to make citizens spend down all their assets
before they're eligible for food stamps. When so many unemployed people in
this economy are living off their savings, enforcing an assets cap is just
plain cruel:

> A top-ranking House Republican has added his voice to the list of those
asking the Corbett Administration to reconsider its plan to check the assets
of everyone now receiving or applying for food stamps in the future.

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> In a letter sent to the state Department of Public Welfare today, Rep. Gene
DiGirolamo of Bucks County said there are better ways to check for fraud and
abuse in the program, and that reinstatement of an assets test would be
"moving backwards."

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> "I would like them not to do it, unless there's another explanation for it
or something that I'm not seeing," said DiGirolamo, the chair of the House
Human Services Committee.

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> The Corbett Administration plans to reinstate an asset test on May 1 as a
way to ensure that people with a certain amount of cash or other assets top
those ...

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