"The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP,
formerly known as Food Stamps) provides benefits to
low-income households to help them buy food. Total
federal expenditures on SNAP amounted to $76 billion
in fiscal year 2014. In an average month that year,
47 million people (or one in seven U.S. residents)
received SNAP benefits.
Some policymakers have expressed a desire to scale back
the program significantly to reduce federal spending. In
this report, the Congressional Budget Office examines
several options for doing so and their effects on the benefits
that would be received by households with different
amounts of income..."
SNAP and households
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