#SNAP

Every now and then a headline makes me gasp: Deena Shankar’s article in Bloomberg News begins: It’s been just about a year since the US government slashed additional pandemic-related food-stamp benefits, and some of the companies that make and sell food are seeing that hit their sales. As she

Here’s what’s going on. SNAP costs are high SNAP data table, participation and costs: In 2022, 41 million SNAP participants received an average benefit of $230 per month for a total yearly cost of $119.2 billion ($113.7 billion in benefits plus $5.5 billion in administrative costs).