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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program. This data set contains participation and cost data for SNAP. The data is furthered divided by annual, state, and monthly levels categorized by persons participating, households participating, benefits provided, average monthly benefits per person and average monthly benefits per household.

The statistic shows total U.S. government spending for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called Food Stamps) from 1995 to 2020. In 2010, about 70 billion U.S. dollars were spent for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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This dataset provides the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits costs for each state.

These data are monthly listings of households, recipients and expenditures for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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This report describes "churning" as a policy concern in regards to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). “Churning” in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is defined as when a household exits SNAP and then re-enters the program within 4 months. Churning is a policy concern due to the financial and administrative burden incurred by both SNAP households and State agencies that administer SNAP. This study explores the circumstances of churning in SNAP by determining the rates and patterns of churn, examining the causes of caseload churn, and calculating costs of churn to both participants and administering agencies in six States.

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest of the domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), providing millions of Americans with the means to purchase food for a nutritious diet. During fiscal year (FY) 2020, SNAP served an average of 39.9 million people monthly and paid out $74.2 billion in benefits, which includes the cost of emergency allotments to supplement SNAP benefits due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. In response to legislative adjustments to program rules and changes in economic and demographic trends, the characteristics of SNAP participants and households and the size of the SNAP caseload change over time. To quantify these changes or estimate the effect of adjustments to program rules on the current SNAP caseload, FNS relies on data from the SNAP Quality Control (QC) database. This database is an edited version of the raw data file of monthly case reviews conducted by State SNAP agencies to assess the accuracy of eligibility determinations and benefit calculations for each State’s SNAP caseload. The COVID-19 public health emergency resulted in an incomplete FY 2020 sample in the raw data file. FNS granted States temporary waivers on conducting QC reviews starting in March 2020. Very few States collected QC data from March 2020 through May 2020. Most States opted to conduct QC reviews from June 2020 through September 2020, although FNS was unable to provide its usual level of oversight of the sampling procedures. Furthermore, monthly State samples for this time period were often smaller than usual. This dataset includes separate SNAP QC files for FY 2020. The first covers the “pre-pandemic” period of October 2019 through February 2020. The second covers the “waiver” period of June 2020 through September 2020 for the 47 States and territories that provided sufficient data for at least one of those months. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Fiscal Year 2020 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database (Period 2). File Name: qc_pub_fy2020_per2.csvResource Description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest of the domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), providing millions of Americans with the means to purchase food for a nutritious diet. During fiscal year (FY) 2020, SNAP served an average of 39.9 million people monthly and paid out $74.2 billion in benefits, which includes the cost of emergency allotments to supplement SNAP benefits due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. In response to legislative adjustments to program rules and changes in economic and demographic trends, the characteristics of SNAP participants and households and the size of the SNAP caseload change over time. To quantify these changes or estimate the effect of adjustments to program rules on the current SNAP caseload, FNS relies on data from the SNAP Quality Control (QC) database. This database is an edited version of the raw data file of monthly case reviews conducted by State SNAP agencies to assess the accuracy of eligibility determinations and benefit calculations for each State’s SNAP caseload.

The COVID-19 public health emergency resulted in an incomplete FY 2020 sample in the raw data file. FNS granted States temporary waivers on conducting QC reviews starting in March 2020. Very few States collected QC data from March 2020 through May 2020. Most States opted to conduct QC reviews from June 2020 through September 2020, although FNS was unable to provide its usual level of oversight of the sampling procedures. Furthermore, monthly State samples for this time period were often smaller than usual.

There are separate SNAP QC databases for FY 2020. The first covers the “pre-pandemic” period of October 2019 through February 2020. The second covers the “waiver” period of June 2020 through September 2020 for the 47 States and territories that provided sufficient data for at least one of those months.Resource Title: Fiscal Year 2020 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database (Period 1). File Name: qc_pub_fy2020_per1.csvResource Description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest of the domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), providing millions of Americans with the means to purchase food for a nutritious diet. During fiscal year (FY) 2020, SNAP served an average of 39.9 million people monthly and paid out $74.2 billion in benefits, which includes the cost of emergency allotments to supplement SNAP benefits due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. In response to legislative adjustments to program rules and changes in economic and demographic trends, the characteristics of SNAP participants and households and the size of the SNAP caseload change over time. To quantify these changes or estimate the effect of adjustments to program rules on the current SNAP caseload, FNS relies on data from the SNAP Quality Control (QC) database. This database is an edited version of the raw data file of monthly case reviews conducted by State SNAP agencies to assess the accuracy of eligibility determinations and benefit calculations for each State’s SNAP caseload.

The COVID-19 public health emergency resulted in an incomplete FY 2020 sample in the raw data file. FNS granted States temporary waivers on conducting QC reviews starting in March 2020. Very few States collected QC data from March 2020 through May 2020. Most States opted to conduct QC reviews from June 2020 through September 2020, although FNS was unable to provide its usual level of oversight of the sampling procedures. Furthermore, monthly State samples for this time period were often smaller than usual.

There are separate SNAP QC databases for FY 2020. The first covers the “pre-pandemic” period of October 2019 through February 2020. The second covers the “waiver” period of June 2020 through September 2020 for the 47 States and territories that provided sufficient data for at least one of those months.Resource Title: Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2020 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel. File Name: FY2020TechDoc.pdfResource Description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest of the domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), providing millions of Americans with the means to purchase food for a nutritious diet. During fiscal year (FY) 2020, SNAP served an average of 39.9 million people monthly and paid out $74.2 billion in benefits, which includes the cost of emergency allotments to supplement SNAP benefits due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. In response to legislative adjustments to program rules and changes in economic and demographic trends, the characteristics of SNAP participants and households and the size of the SNAP caseload change over time. To quantify these changes or estimate the effect of adjustments to program rules on the current SNAP caseload, FNS relies on data from the SNAP Quality Control (QC) database. This database is an edited version of the raw data file of monthly case reviews conducted by State SNAP agencies to assess the accuracy of eligibility determinations and benefit calculations for each State’s SNAP caseload.

The COVID-19 public health emergency resulted in an incomplete FY 2020 sample in the raw data file. FNS granted States temporary waivers on conducting QC reviews starting in March 2020. Very few States collected QC data from March 2020 through May 2020. Most States opted to conduct QC reviews from June 2020 through September 2020, although FNS was unable to provide its usual level of oversight of the sampling procedures. Furthermore, monthly State samples for this time period were often smaller than usual.

There are separate SNAP QC databases for FY 2020. The first covers the “pre-pandemic” period of October 2019 through February 2020. The second covers the “waiver” period of June 2020 through September 2020 for the 47 States and territories that provided sufficient data for at least one of those months.

This statistic shows change in SNAP food spending in the United States in 2013 according to food departments. In 2013, SNAP food spending fell an average 2.8 percent. In the same year, the most sizable cuts has been made to spending on liquor, where SNAP households fell more than 12 percent.

United States SNAP: Food Stamps: Benefit: Costs data was reported at 4.797 USD bn in Aug 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 4.798 USD bn for Jul 2018. United States SNAP: Food Stamps: Benefit: Costs data is updated monthly, averaging 2.041 USD bn from Oct 1989 (Median) to Aug 2018, with 347 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6,471.723 USD bn in Nov 2012 and a record low of 1.144 USD bn in Nov 1989. United States SNAP: Food Stamps: Benefit: Costs data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Food and Nutrition Service. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G086: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

The SNAP Policy Database provides a central data source for information on State policy options in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The database includes information on State-level SNAP policies relating to eligibility criteria, recertification and reporting requirements, benefit issuance methods, availability of online applications, use of biometric technology (such as fingerprinting), and coordination with other low-income assistance programs. Data are provided for all 50 States and the District of Columbia for each month from January 1996 through December 2011.

The information in this database can facilitate research on factors that influence SNAP participation and on SNAP's effects on a variety of outcomes, such as health and dietary intake. More specifically, the database can be used to:

• Describe the differences in the State-level administration of SNAP and trends in the adoption of specific State-level SNAP policies,
• Examine how State policies affect household-level participation in SNAP, and
• Estimate the effect of SNAP participation on outcomes such as health and food spending by combining this data with nationally representative survey data. The SNAP Policy Database provides a potentially exogenous source of variation in program participation and can be used in instrumental variables estimation techniques.This record was taken from the USDA Enterprise Data Inventory that feeds into the https://data.gov catalog. Data for this record includes the following resources: SNAP Policy Data Sets For complete information, please visit https://data.gov.

Many safety-net programs issue benefits as monthly lump-sum payments. We investigate how the timing of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit issuance affects food purchases and the incidence of the transfer. Using scanner data from a large sample of grocery stores and state and time variation in SNAP issuance schedules, we document large, SNAP-induced intra-month cycles in food expenditures. However, we find that retailers do not adjust prices based on these predictable patterns of demand. Our results therefore suggest that reforming issuance schedules may reduce costs from SNAP-induced demand surges but are unlikely to affect the incidence of SNAP benefits.

This public dataset published by USDA summarizes the total number of enrollees in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by region. SNAP provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of families and persons meeting eligibility criteria related to monthly income. Program enrollment data offers a direct look into some of the most important underlying social determinants of health (SDoH) by county, including financial insecurity and food insecurity. Analysis of this data can also provide information about the characteristics of the subsidy program’s reach and market penetration over time. As an objective marker of the welfare benefit program’s utilization, these data also offer a complementary view of these SDoH alongside the survey-based questions about SNAP that are included in the ACS dataset. States report these administrative data to the USDA twice a year. The dataset includes total count of people, households and issuance of SNAP benefits by county or county/program. For more information, please refer to the USDA’s SNAP website (link )

This dataset provides monthly statistics for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation in Virginia by month for the period 2012-2021.

This dataset provides monthly statistics for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation in Virginia by month and by Local Department of Social Services (LDSS) for the period 2012-2021.

This paper investigates the effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP) benefit disbursement on intra monthly household level purchases made from a supermarket retailer. Using variation in the timing of benefit receipt, we find that spending and the likelihood of shopping increase by $2 and 1.5 percentage points, respectively, on the day that SNAP benefits are disbursed. We also find that the bulk(national brand) expenditure share increases by 2 (0.6) percentage points on the day of benefit receipt. We find little evidence for cyclicality in the healthfulness of food purchases.Finally, we compare and contrast estimates that use variation in the indicator for benefit receipt (benefit receipt estimates) to estimates that utilize variation in the probability of SNAP benefit receipt (likelihood of benefit receipt estimates). We find that the likelihood of benefit receipt estimates are statistically distinguishable from and 2.1 to 2.8 times larger than the benefit receipt estimates for the outcome of spending.We decompose these differences and provide guidance to researchers in the event that only the likelihood of benefit receipt is known.

This dataset enlists the monthly listings of households, recipients and expenditures for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). Data is from the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance and the NYC Open Data.

Analysis of ‘Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Caseloads and Expenditures: Beginning 2002’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/c81762dc-584f-40d5-a0ad-11ec47938cd8 on 12 February 2022.

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These data are monthly listings of households, recipients and expenditures for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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