The changes could leave potentially hundreds of thousands of Californians looking for work.
When those benefits are cut or disrupted, the burden for keeping people fed falls on places like the Alameda County Food Bank. The food bank's director, Michael Altfest, said that's exactly what they're preparing for now.
The HR-1 spending bill requires that, to get food assistance, people ages 18–64 without dependent children under age 14 must participate in qualifying work, volunteer or training activities for at least 20 hours per week.
"It definitely will mean that people who are within those definitions will need to meet those work requirements somehow," Altfest said.
That's what Special Counsel at Duane Morris LLP, Michael Bernick, did when he headed up the state's Employment Development Department.
"It's a tough, tough, tough world out there in terms of trying to get a job. But that's why you need this work structure and support," Bernick said. "These work mandates can actually be successful or positive, as they were in the welfare-to-work, but they need to have these other elements that we don't have right now."
"The main point you bring up is the right one, which is, where are these jobs coming from?" he said. "That's been the big gap so far. So that even those of us who support the rules are concerned that you need this other structure placement, or transitional jobs, or some supported work."
CalFresh clients must reapply for benefits every year, so they will have 90 days after they reach their reapplication date to find work. For that reason, it could take 12 to 15 months to know what the full impact of the new rules will be on both the job market and the food safety net.
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