Notes that over half of the households receiving food stamps in 2001 contained children, 28 percent contained people with disabilities, and 20 percent contained elderly individuals. The average monthly benefit was $163 per household, and almost half of all food stamp households were located in...

Provides summary information about the demographic and economic circumstances of food stamp households. On average, about 19 million people received food stamps each month in 2002. About 54 percent of all food stamp households contained children, and most were single-parent households. About 19...

This report uses Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) quality control data from FY 2009 to examine the size and impact of payment errors on income and poverty status and to compare the characteristics of households with payment errors to those of households without payment errors.

Notes that fewer people are now eligible for food stamps than in the past, but a higher proportion of those eligible chose to participate, and overall participation rates rose in 2000 after five years of decline. Although participation rates rose for most groups, they declined in 2000 for...

This report, the latest in a series on food stamp participation rates based on the March Current Population Survey, presents national participation rates for fiscal year 2003. Of the 37 million individuals eligible for food stamps in an average month in 2003, 21 million (56 percent) chose to...

The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, is conducting a health impact assessment intended to inform congressional consideration of changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) included as part of the 2013...