I feel that 30 days of processing time is enough and we should do away with extend pending food stamp applications.  If a household needs assistance they will provide the agency with the necessary information in order to process their application within the first 30 days or they probably don't need the assistance.  Agencies rarely take 30 days to process an application if all verifications are provided to them in a timely manner.  There are too many things that can change in an additional 30 day time period that would make the household ineligible for benefits or eligible for additional benefits when you allow 30 days originally and then extend pend for an additional 30 days and taking action based on the households circumstances at the time of application when you finally receive the final verifications you were waiting on originally.  30 days is long enough.