SNAP’s New Reality: Expanded Work Requirements, Cost Shifts to States, and Benefit Adjustment Changes

Zixia Huang, Wendong Zhang and Alan Hinds

Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR), 2026, vol. 8, issue 4

Abstract: The One Big Beautiful Bill dramatically changes SNAP through three major changes: expanding time-limited work requirements to an estimated 1.6 million more SNAP households, shifting billions in costs to states, and restoring the cost neutrality for benefit adjustment. We show how these shifts impact food security and state budgets.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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