A provision in the bill would have required people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to work or attend job training for 20 hours a week.

The first look at changes to eligibility and work requirements that could be coming to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, has some Hoosiers worried.

An estimated 700,000 Hoosiers participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, last year.

The ban includes any conviction of Schedule 1 drug offense, for example: cocaine, marijuana, opioids, and LSD.

The federal government—which pays for SNAP benefits, sometimes called food stamps—says such assistance can only go to households that have less than $2,250 in assets, but states can opt out of that requirement.