There is no incentive to look for work if you are on extended unemployment benefits.
If you know the benefits out way getting a job that pays $10.00 an hour and they will continue for at least 96 weeks, would you drop the benefits and take a 9 or 10 dollar job?
The benefits need to be scaled down each 26 week period by 15%.
The same should be applied to food stamps, but maybe not as drastic Like 5% every year.
I do not believe, in this day and age that working tax payers should be responsible for paying others for not working, without being able to claim them as a dependent on their taxes.
We really do have people who have been on food stamps all their lives!