Asset limits under SNAP and TANF can make it impossible for people receiving these benefits to accrue even modest savings, running counter to the objective of the programs—to support recipients and enable them to advance economically. These blogs and policy briefs explain how asset limits hinder low-income people’s access to opportunity, and what states can do to change them.
This paper examines how asset limits run counter to the goals of TANF and SNAP of supporting recipients in work and enabling them to advance economically.
To celebrate Disability Pride Month, we should uplift the stories and resilience of the disability community, and we also must advocate for policy solutions to promote equity and economic justice for people with disabilities.
This paper examines how asset limits in general, and vehicle asset limits specifically, run counter to the objectives of TANF and SNAP of supporting recipients and enabling them to advance economically.
This brief from CLASP, First Focus, and Single Stop explains the benefits of President Obama's proposal to raise asset limits to no less than $10,000 for all federally funded means-tested programs serving low-income adults and their families.