Thousands of veterans in every state will be among the nearly 48 million people who now participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and who will experience a benefit cut as the 2009 Recovery Act’s temporary benefit boost ends on November 1, according to a new Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis.[1]
The new analysis, which uses data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, finds thousands of veterans lived in SNAP households in every state between 2009 and 2011. For instance, more than 100,000 veterans lived in SNAP households in two states: Florida (109,500) and Texas (105,700). North Dakota had the fewest such veterans (2,200). (See Table 1.)
Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011, a previous analysis of Census data estimated.[2]
SNAP Benefit Cuts Will Affect Thousands of Veterans in Every State — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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