Post by Logan on May 9, 2016 18:29:18 GMT -6
TRENTON — The New Jersey Senate on Monday unanimously accepted a compromise with Gov. Chris Christie over access to food stamps for unemployed people living in economically distressed cities and counties.
The Senate voted 40-0 to agree with the governor's conditional veto that was borne out of a difference between his administration, which wanted to fully restore work requirements as a condition of receiving benefits, and lawmakers who wanted to ask the federal government to waive those requirements in these specific communities.
The Senate will have to vote on the compromise again, and the Assembly must also approve the amended bill.
Under the compromise, the state Human Services commissioner must examine city and county joblessness data, and then take action when the rates are deemed too high.
Read more: www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/nj_senate_agrees_to_christie_compromise_on_food_st.html
The Senate voted 40-0 to agree with the governor's conditional veto that was borne out of a difference between his administration, which wanted to fully restore work requirements as a condition of receiving benefits, and lawmakers who wanted to ask the federal government to waive those requirements in these specific communities.
The Senate will have to vote on the compromise again, and the Assembly must also approve the amended bill.
Under the compromise, the state Human Services commissioner must examine city and county joblessness data, and then take action when the rates are deemed too high.
Read more: www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/05/nj_senate_agrees_to_christie_compromise_on_food_st.html