How have people in local food stamp offices reacted to simplified reporting?
For some eligibility technicians, there was culture shock. After all, in one form or another, the Food Stamp Program has operated for almost forty years requiring clients to report changes in their circumstances as they happen. While this has taken many forms over the decades, there has always been some rigorous reporting requirement. Accompanying this was a frequently reinforced instruction to process all information that a household might report. Every time a household would report a change, the eligibility technician would have to be sure the change went into effect. Under simplified reporting, it is not so simple. But SR removes reporting requirements for most households for six months. So a households August allotment could really be based on its circumstances as long ago as January. /1 Food stamp certification has traditionally required an exact relationship between a months allotment and the net income in that month or a recent month. This change was a culture shock for many eli
