How many people receive SNAP benefits in the US every month?

USAFacts. ^ | Oct. 2025 | USAFacts.

[daniel1212]

About 41.7 million people during fiscal year (FY) 2024. That’s 12.3% of the US population. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is determined based on household income levels....

The 12.3% of the population receiving SNAP benefits in FY 2023 is more than double the share in FY 2000 when 6.1% of people were recipients...

SNAP...is administered primarily by state governments...

In FY 2024, New Mexico had the highest share of its population receiving SNAP payments...

Qualifying for SNAP benefits is based on how close a household's income level is to the national poverty line. If expenses aren't considered (i.e., gross monthly income), households must make less than 30% above the federal poverty level. If expenses are considered, households must make less than the federal poverty level.

[spintreebob]

“SNAP...is administered primarily by state governments...”

How many people are on SNAP in CA, IL, GA and 25 states total is determined by Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System.
This software is severely defective. Many people that IES says are eligible to receive SNAP (or TANF, WIC, SEC 8 or Medicaid) are dead, or phantoms, or DUPS.

Deloitte is a big welfare queen.

[markman46]

a lot of those people that receive SNAP are seniors like me.

[skr]

Mr. Franklin understood human nature all too well.

[1Old Pro]

The 12.3% of the population receiving SNAP benefits in FY 2023 is more than double the share in FY 2000 when 6.1% of people were recipients...

So poverty is getting worse in America or welfare is becoming more generous.

[daniel1212]

If I were a Pastor and saw some of the things my congregation were posting on Facebook, I would be telling my congregation this morning that all funds within the Church will be used for feeding this community and nothing else. I would ignore all other focus of tithe money to prove a point. If local Churches aren't willing to do this, I feel better knowing that there are people in this community willing to help those in need. That's the community I remember. That's the community that was present when I was younger. Where's that community now?

(Even) here in the NorthEast US, it is evangelical churches that provide the most non-government humanitarian aid, and not just here, but to the third-world, which is were the truly poor are. As one whose "office" has much been the street, i have met very, very few persons who are poor as in having no shelter, food, clothes, aside from some who are addicted to drugs, alcohol, which cities offer help for.

Being in prison is where the most suffer, not always for actual crimes, I have 3 persons seeking to incarcerate me for for opposing their crimes against nature, as state law classifies it. The battle is the Lord's .

[Elsie]

EVERYone knows that what you subsidize - you get MORE of!

[Elsie]

How many of thse receiving SNAP benefits are immigrants and illegal aliens who...

...would be dying of STARVATION!!! and their bodies laying about fouling the atmosphere. Better to keep them alive so the USA will smell better.

[Elsie]

There has NEVER been a program that lacked bells and whistles that didn’t get them later.

[Elsie]

Lots of angry, hungry, poor people is not a good thing to have on the streets.

BINGO!

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... our government has caused this problem.

The folks we VOTE for>>!!>>

[Elsie]

Well, that's ONE of them.

[Elsie]

...as MArie Antionette found out.

[Elsie]

true

[Elsie]

I've read somethig like that.

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James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

[Elsie]

When I'm at the grocery - I do NOT do the delivery crap

My granddaughter orders groceries online from Walmart.

All she has to do is pick them up.

She saves a LOT - money AND time - because of very few 'impulse' buys and the kids aren't grabbing things off the shelf to put in the basket, as well as no candy tempting you at the checkout.

[Elsie]

White individuals receive the largest share of food stamps by number, accounting for about 37% of participants.

You mean the NON-whites receive 63% of the total?

Amazing!!

[ladyjane]

My granddaughter orders groceries online from Walmart.

Good for her. It is safer.

Tell her to be particularly aware in the next few days. Some liberals are claiming they are going to raid walmarts and steal from people in the parking lot. Hopefully she has already stocked up.

[ladyjane]

LOL

[logi_cal869]

Can’t argue with that logic.

But then she misses all out on all of the social experiment observation /s ;-)

[Elsie]

That’s ok, as folks around here will SHOOT people trying this!

[Elsie]

I was pulling into a parking lot once and saw a thug brazenly yank the purse away from an old lady, knocking her to the ground. I stomped the gas and would have run the bastard down, but ran over the ladies foot instead.

Other folks managed to catch the perp as I had stopped to attend the woman.