Many people are not able to work, requiring work to have food benefits is absolutely ridiculous. There's numerous points that back this statement. 1. Families with small children given the cost of daycare it proves that in the end you're only working to pay for daycare and you have nothing left over. so that on top of the cost of gas and the hours of care and love lost with your children overshadow any reasoning that you should have to work to have food stamps. 2. Even with minimum wage or higher working three jobs or even one. If you go even 0.60 cents over their poverty chart limit. You lose all of your benefits. Apparently that 60 cents goes a long way when looking at it from the government's point of view. All of the sudden you're rich! That 60 cents put you over the guidelines to qualify for any state help and all of the sudden you have to pay for all medical costs. Prescriptions, specialty Drs, Child care. The list goes on and on. This includes Well care visits, vaccinations, groceries. All in all this amounts to thousands of dollars out of pocket because you made $0.60 over the limit because you are required to work to maintain your food stamps. That would be a definite fail to humanity. 3. Disability. whether it's mental or physical. Some are simply not able to work to maintain benefits. 4. Being a caregiver to someone in your home such as an elderly parent or child that needs 24/7 support but you are not able to pay for it so you have to do it yourself. 5. Age-related barriers: Elderly individuals, in particular, face challenges in the workforce like age discrimination and health issues, which makes it even harder to achieve the substantial income increase needed to replace lost benefits. Why the cliff effect is a problem It perpetuates poverty: trapppingl families in a cycle of dependency, where taking a step forward financially results in a step backward due to lost support, making it difficult to break free from poverty.