The Role of Multiple Benefits in Maintaining the Social Safety Net: The Case of Food Stamps

Maurice MacDonald

Journal of Human Resources, 1985, vol. 20, issue 3, 421-436

Abstract: Panel data from the 1979 Income Survey Development Program are used to describe the adequacy of the social welfare safety net and the population it protected prior to the 1981 round of welfare cuts. The analysis centers on food stamp recipients and shows that while some food stamp recipients had incomes exceeding 130 percent of the poverty line, many others remained below the poverty line even with food stamps and other program benefits. The paper closes by discussing the implications of the analysis for benefit adequacy and the interaction with state-provided welfare benefits.

Date: 1985
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