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SNAP food aid sign-ups are going down. They went down faster than expected because of the job rules.

SNAP food aid sign-ups are going down. They went down faster than expected because of the job rules.

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August 21st, 2026

SNAP food aid sign-ups are going down. They went down faster than expected because of the job rules.

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The biggest food support program in the US is SNAP.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์ง€์› ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์€ SNAP์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

People in SNAP dropped by more than 13% in one year.

SNAP์— ๋“ฑ๋กํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด 1๋…„ ๋งŒ์— 13% ์ด์ƒ ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

President Trump's law has new rules in it.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์— ์ƒˆ ๊ทœ์น™์ด ๋“ค์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

That rule says you must work to get benefits.

๊ทธ ๊ทœ์น™์€ ์ผ์„ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

So more people lost benefits than the government expected.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์žƒ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some people lost benefits because they could not meet the new rules.

ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์žƒ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ ์ค‘์—๋Š” ์ƒˆ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ๋ชป ์ง€ํ‚จ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But supporters say something.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜นํ˜ธ์ž๋“ค์€ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They say many people were refused because of paperwork, even if they qualified.

์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์žˆ์–ด๋„ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€๋œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋งŽ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Arizona had the biggest decrease.

์• ๋ฆฌ์กฐ๋‚˜์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ฐ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In one year, the number of people signed up fell by 55%.

1๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ๋“ฑ๋ก์ž๊ฐ€ 55% ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The state says there were problems while putting new federal rules into action.

์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ƒˆ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๊ทœ์น™์„ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They say those problems were a big wall for people. They applied.

๊ทธ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ ์ฒญ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Georgia, Louisiana, and Nevada also fell by more than 20%.

์กฐ์ง€์•„, ๋ฃจ์ด์ง€์• ๋‚˜, ๋„ค๋ฐ”๋‹ค์—์„œ๋„ 20% ์ด์ƒ ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

In Florida, it fell by 22%.

ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค์—์„œ๋Š” 22% ์ค„์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Florida state government says this is the result of efforts for economic independence.

ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ž๋ฆฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The new work rules ask more people to work.

์ƒˆ ๊ทผ๋กœ ์š”๊ฑด์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์—๊ฒŒ ์ผ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Before, they applied only to adults aged 54 or younger.

์˜ˆ์ „์—๋Š” 54์„ธ ์ดํ•˜ ์„ฑ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ๋งŒ ์ ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Now people aged 55 to 64 must work, volunteer, or go to school.

์ด์ œ๋Š” 55์„ธ์—์„œ 64์„ธ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์ผํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ•™๊ต์— ๋‹ค๋…€์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

People with children aged 14 to 17 are the same.

14์„ธ์—์„œ 17์„ธ ์ž๋…€๋ฅผ ๋‘” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

People aged 65 or older, people with children under 14, and sick people are still exempt.

65์„ธ ์ด์ƒ, 14์„ธ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ ์ž๋…€๋ฅผ ๋‘” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ด ๋‚˜์œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฉด์ œ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some exempt groups, including homeless people, are no longer exempt.

๋…ธ์ˆ™์ž๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ฉด์ œ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์€ ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๋ฉด์ œ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Congressional Budget Office said enrollment will keep going down for the next 10 years.

์˜ํšŒ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ๊ตญ์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ 10๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋“ฑ๋ก์ด ๊ณ„์† ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It says the number will fall below 34 million in 2036.

2036๋…„์—๋Š” 3400๋งŒ ๋ช… ์•„๋ž˜๋กœ ๋–จ์–ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But they did not expect such a fast drop.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Advocacy groups are worried.

์˜นํ˜ธ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They say SNAP may go down. Other help, like school meals or food banks, cannot fill the gap.

SNAP์ด ์ค„๋ฉด ํ•™๊ต ๊ธ‰์‹์ด๋‚˜ ํ‘ธ๋“œ๋ฑ…ํฌ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€์›์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์„ ๋ฉ”์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Some food banks are getting more donations because demand is up.

์ผ๋ถ€ ํ‘ธ๋“œ๋ฑ…ํฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋” ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

But they think it is hard to fully close the gap.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ธฐ๋Š” ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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