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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Melissa Goldin

FACT FOCUS: Why nearly 4.3 million people are no longer receiving food stamps

Senate Agriculture - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins this week attributed a multimillion-person drop in the number of participants receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to the tamping down of fraud and an improved economy.

But experts discount those factors, saying the primary driver of the decrease was more likely new legislation that changed how the program runs.

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