Federal food assistance falls short of basic meal costs for the roughly 40 million Americans receiving the benefit, according to a new report.
Federal food assistance falls far short of basic meal costs for the roughly 40 million Americans receiving the benefit, according to a
The average modestly priced meal cost $3.37 at the end of last year, 19% more than the average maximum SNAP benefit of $2.84, the researchers found.“A study that proves what we can show anecdotally ... is super helpful,” he said Wednesday.The number of recipients jumped from about 35 million in 2019 to about 39 million in 2020. The program had over 40 million participants each year from 2010 to 2018, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data.
Lawmakers are now negotiating a new farm bill, and Bernard is concerned that the House version could result in SNAP recipients falling even further behind.wants to keep the USDA from “arbitrarily increasing” benefits and calls for Thrifty Food Plan updates to be “cost neutral.”Without the 21% increase in 2021, he said the struggles illustrated by the new Urban Institute report would be even more extreme.
Bernard said they’re seeing folks running out of SNAP benefits earlier in the month, and that’s putting more pressure on food banks to pick up the slack.
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