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Mark Pocan: “Now up to 56 years old, you know, after 56 you don't have to…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Representative Mark Pocan Discusses Controversial Budget Bill and Health Report Issues

Published | Video Starts at 15:40

And if we don't, that means people, even more people will lose their, their food share. But one last thing about this just it's so horrible about how they did this. Now up to 56 years old, you know, after 56 you don't have to as regularly prove you know what you're doing to continue getting food assistance. They raised that to 64. because those spry 63 and 64 year olds, you know, but it used to be if you had a single parent and had a kids up to, you know, at 18, up to 18, you didn't have to do the compliance as often. (15:40–15:52)

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Asserts that the age for regular proof of need for food assistance was raised from 56 to 64.

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