{"id":150890,"date":"2026-03-03T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150890\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:56:22","slug":"changes-to-snap-could-affect-thousands-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150890\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to SNAP could affect thousands in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New federal work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients took effect Sunday, potentially impacting thousands of New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rules, adults ages 18 to 64 must work or participate in an approved job training program for at least 80 hours a month to receive full SNAP benefits. People with disabilities and those caring for a child under 14 are exempt. Those who do not meet the requirements will be limited to three months of benefits within a three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The law also eliminates several previous automatic exemptions, including for adults over 54, people experiencing homelessness, military veterans and young adults who aged out of foster care.<\/p>\n<p>Kanchana Suggu of the United Way of New York City joined \u201cWeekends On 1\u201d to discuss what the new rules could mean for vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New federal work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients took effect Sunday, potentially impacting thousands of New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7473,9,24,56,63,65,64,5252,200,4181],"class_list":{"0":"post-150890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-ctv","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-rocco-vertuccio","16":"tag-vod","17":"tag-weekend-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}