>> how do you get a stamp card? >> go to the human resource office to have your birth certificate your social security card, got don't have a paycheck coming in so i qualify. >> how often do you have to do this? every month every six months? >> they got it now to where you only do it once a year. >> things have changed. back in 1996 if you were an able adult like jason with no family there were limitations. you could get food stamps for only three months every three years. the exception, if you were working at least a 20 hour workweek or participated in a work training program. president obama wiped away the restrictions when he signed his stimulus bill in 2009. and in 2010 obama used his regulatory powers to extend the suspension of those welfare to work requirements.