SNAP Spending Rose and Fell With Pandemic-Era Changes to Benefit Amounts

Jordan W. Jones

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2024, vol. 2024

Abstract: USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides benefits for low-income households to buy groceries, is the Nation’s largest nutrition assistance program and USDA’s largest program by spending. In fiscal year (FY) 2023, 42.1 million people received SNAP benefits per month, on average, amounting to 12.6 percent of the U.S. resident population. Federal spending on SNAP totaled $112.8 billion in FY 2023, or 67.8 percent of total USDA domestic nutrition assistance spending that year.

Keywords: Agricultural Finance; Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.356074

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