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USDA’s most recent public characteristics report (FY2023) and related coverage show that the largest single racial group of SNAP participants is non‑Hispanic White, with Black/African American and His...
SNAP fraud takes several distinct forms: recipient fraud such as trafficking and false reporting, retailer fraud including unauthorized redemption and trafficking, and electronic theft like card skimm...
Measured one way, improper SNAP payments totaled roughly 10–12% of benefits in recent years — about $10–11 billion in FY2023 and a 10.93% rate in FY2024 — but that figure mixes honest errors, agency m...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) of 2025 narrows SNAP eligibility to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (LPRs or “green card holders”), certain Cuban/Haitian entrants, and Compact of Free...
SNAP calculates “net income” by subtracting a small set of federally allowed deductions from gross monthly household income; the program then reduces the household’s maximum allotment by 30% of that n...
SNAP recertification timing and forms are set by each state and communicated to recipients by mail roughly two months before a certification period ends, though practices and deadlines vary by state ....
SNAP’s net-income eligibility for fiscal 2025 is calculated at 100 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a household’s size and is determined after allowable deductions are subtracted from gr...
The 2025 reconciliation law (the One Big Beautiful Bill, a.k.a. H.R. 1 / OBBB) narrowed SNAP eligibility for many noncitizens and reiterated a five‑year bar for certain lawful permanent residents, but...
SNAP spending and per-person benefits rose sharply during and after the pandemic but have moderated since; average monthly benefit was about $187–$188 per person in FY2025 while roughly 42–42.4 millio...
State SNAP offices are telling Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients they may be exempt from ABAWD work rules but must show documentation to avoid sanctions; New York guidance repeatedly instr...
About half the states let elderly or disabled SNAP households claim a simplified or “standard” medical deduction instead of documenting every expense, and federal SNAP rules allow an excess medical ex...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBB) tightened Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) “ABAWD” work rules by expanding who is subject to time‑limited work requirements, adding a spec...
State Standard Utility Allowances (SUAs) change how a family of four’s utility costs are counted toward SNAP’s excess shelter deduction in fiscal year 2026 by replacing actual bills with state‑set est...
The SNAP shelter (or excess shelter) deduction reduces a household’s countable income when housing and utility costs push a family’s post-deduction income below basic needs; it is calculated by compar...
Federal and state rules give people accused of SNAP fraud administrative and legal avenues: agencies must prove Intentional Program Violations (IPVs) and recipients can request fair hearings and judic...
States handle restitution and benefit disqualification in two distinct ways: federal law and temporary federal funding set parameters for when states must—or may—replace SNAP benefits stolen by electr...
SNAP benefits primarily pay for grocery items and generally cannot be used to purchase , but there are narrow exceptions—chiefly the federally authorized Restaurant Meals Program and time‑limited or d...
The available analyses show that including disqualification from benefits, repayment or replacement of benefits, civil money penalties for retailers, and potential fines and imprisonment under federal...
State SNAP offices translated the federal 80‑hour monthly ABAWD standard into concrete paperwork, verification workflows and IT changes: they required monthly self‑reporting or agency verification of ...
Federal and state probes in Minnesota have, so far, tied the vast majority of alleged losses to a discrete set of providers and middlemen — nonprofits, behavioral-health operators, housing vendors and...