LIMA — While social safety net programs like welfare and food stamps were intended to provide assistance to the unemployed to help them get back on their feet, the current system can arbitrarily cut off those benefits from recipients once they attain a certain wage level, leaving them in a worse financial situation and disincentivizing promotions and raises in the workplace. “Employers tell us that they can’t find people to work, where they have jobs but they have no people to fill them,” Ohio Rep.