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The CAP presentation warned the reconciliation language would expand SNAP work reporting to families with school‑age children and older adults, raise the age threshold for dependents, require both parents in two‑parent households to meet requirements, and eliminate exemptions for veterans and other groups.

via PBS News Hour - The Latest — More than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. The bill cut SNAP funding, expanded work requirements and recently pushed more program costs to states. As Stephanie Sy reports, that's meant many more people are turning to food banks for support.

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The program reported that Montana implemented Medicaid work requirements with confusing guidance from the state health department, and the host said some people could lose coverage or remain without services into spring as renewals and systems are reconciled.

Human‑services providers told the council the FRAC report confirms an urgent, systemic funding shortfall — multiple groups estimated a local gap in the low‑hundreds of millions and warned of agency closures without stable new funding.

A board member of an immigrant rights network warned that lawfully present noncitizens (refugees, asylees, trafficking survivors without LPR status) could lose Medicaid and SNAP as of Oct. 1 and asked the commission to explore safety‑net options and provide data on affected counts and costs by October.

A presenter at Community Board 1 said a federal law limits eligibility for certain public benefits — including SNAP, Medicare and sometimes Medicaid — tied to immigration status, and explained that Medicaid is financed jointly by federal and state governments.

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The Connecticut Paid Leave Authority board voted Sept. 10 to maintain the statutory maximum 0.5% contribution rate after an actuarial presentation showing a fiscal-year loss and projections that a lower rate would deepen a multiyear fund shortfall.

SNAP enrollments drop over 13% as work requirements tighten under Trump administration policies.