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Improving the Assessment of SNAP Targeting Using Administrative Records

  • by Erik Scherpf, Constance Newman and Mark Prell
  • 5/26/2015
  • ERR-186

Overview

SNAP provides food and nutrition benefits to low-income households based on a formula that adjusts for monthly need. This study assesses how well SNAP is targeted to low-income households by estimating benefit receipt by household income relative to poverty for the period 2008 to 2012.

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