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cost-of-living adjustments in foodstamp benefits to 2 percent a year, replacing a system that bases increases on inflation.
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WASHINGTON — The Republican legislation to redesign the $27 billion food-stamp program would jeopardize the health of needy Americans and threaten the farm economy, the Clinton administration said yesterday.
The administration's analysis was released as the House Agriculture Committee took up the final piece of the GOP's blueprint to reform the nation's welfare system.
Two other House committees have completed work on other elements of the overhaul, which would replace federal cash welfare, foster care, nutrition and child care programs with several block grants to the states.
President Clinton attacked the overall GOP welfare legislation
package in a speech yesterday, saying it wouldn't do enough to help welfare recipients find work when their cash benefits end after five years.
"When people just get cut off without going to work, you know where they're likely to end up, don't you? On your doorstep," Clinton told county officials. "That's not welfare reform. That's just shifting the problem."
nate uniform national eligibility and benefit standards, which protect low-income families and their children wherever they live, said Richard E. Rominger, acting agriculture secretary, in a letter to Roberts.
"I just believe it's wrong to cut people off because they're young, and they made a mistake," Clinton said. "I think it's wrong to make small children pay the price for their parents' mistakes."
Clinton also singled out a provision in the GOP plan to cut off cash welfare to unmarried mothers under 18.
Republicans on the Agriculture Committee, meanwhile, said the food-stamp legislation would cut $16 billion out of a program expected to cost $150 billion during the next five years.
One in 10 Americans — 27 million in all -- receive food stamps.
The bill would hold automatic
According to its estimates, food-stamp spending would be cut by $25 billion during five years, more than 2 million recipients would lose all benefits in 1996, and virtually everyone else would receive less help buying groceries.
The legislation also would bar most legal immigrants from receiving food stamps, and would tighten eligibility rules for low-income families.
Rep. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said the bill preserves food stamps as a federal program to guarantee that any American who needs food would continue to have access to nutrition assistance.
"All this will be accomplished within a cost structure that is more affordable and more controlled than the present program," he said.
Rominger said a $16 billion cut in food-stamp spending could lower retail food sales by $3 billion to $7 billion in five years.
The legislation also would elimi-
"As food spending declines, the loss in sales would affect earnings of food manufacturing and distribution firms. Agricultural producers would suffer decreases in gross farm income as farm prices and food sales decline." Rominger said.
Rep. Harold L. Volkmer, D-Mo., said the GOP's plan would take millions of children off the food-stamp rolls.
"They're taking food right out of kids' mouths and giving it to the wealthy," said Volkmer, repeating a frequent charge from Democrats who contend the GOP needs the savings from welfare reform to finance tax cuts for the rich.
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