Posted on 10/26/2025 3:09:20 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at usafacts.org ...
About $100.3 billion during fiscal year (FY) 2024. That’s 1.5% of all federal spending.
the first federal Food Stamp Program was established in 1939 and went through a number of iterations before it officially became SNAP in 2008. SNAP funding is authorized through the Farm Bill as open-ended mandatory spending, excerpts. And; In FY 2024, the average participant received $188 in monthly benefits, down 25.8% from a FY 2021 high of $253 per person. - https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-snap-every-year/country/united-states/
The less dependent we are on gov. and more on God than the better.
We've been reading headlines that a large portion of Americans are overweight. So let's think of this as a dietary restriction for people who shouldn't been gobbling fast foods and high-fructose corn syrup in sodas and more.
You latter point is well taken. God will provide.
“How many people receive SNAP benefits in the US every month?”
About 20,000,000 too many, too lazy, or too obese.
fedgov spent $100bn just on food for 41m people.
how much do you think they spent on the 20m+ illegals they brought in... fed, housed, and provided health care for?
at least $1000/mon
20m * $1000/mon == $20bn/mon => $240bn/yr
$100 billion total SNAP spend and 12% of the population
receiving SNAP benefits is too high in my view.
But - if our GDP is $30 trillion and our NATO contribution is 5% of GDP that
makes our NATO contribution $1.5 trillion or FIFTEEN times what we pay for SNAP.
Doesn’t make sense to me to spend 15 times more on nato than snap.
I’m not saying snap should increase by any means - but nato is total bullcrap.
Why marry yo baby mama and loose welfare benefits? back door daddies go back to the 60’s. Now it’s a life style fo too many.
From the article:
“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.”
From Google AI:
The Federal Poverty Level (FPL) is a measure of income used to determine eligibility for federal programs, with the 2025 FPL for a one-person household being $15,650. The FPL is an annual income threshold that varies by household size and location, with the guidelines updated each year to account for inflation. For example, the FPL for a family of four in the contiguous states is $32,150.
How it’s determined: The FPL is based on poverty thresholds that were originally calculated in the 1960s and are updated annually for inflation.
Purpose: It is used to determine eligibility for various government assistance programs, such as Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance Marketplace subsidies.
2025 Guidelines (contiguous states and D.C.):
1 Person: $15,650
2 People: $21,150
3 People: $26,650
4 People: $32,150
5 People: $37,650
6 People: $43,150
7 People: $48,650
8 People: $54,150
For households with more than eight people:
The guidelines increase by $5,500 for each additional person in the contiguous states.
Higher poverty levels:
Many programs use a percentage of the FPL (such as 138% or 200%) to determine eligibility.
Variations for Alaska and Hawaii:
Poverty guidelines are higher in Alaska and Hawaii to account for the higher cost of living.
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Seems to me, a federal poverty level doesn’t make a lot of sense. This is reflected for Hawaii and Alaska, but there’s great variation between states in the lower 48 that are not accounted for.
I saw a video of one of the SNAP moms with bags of fat hanging off her upper arms while she shopped in a sleeveless shirt at a warehouse store. How did she get morbidly obese on the taxpayers many, many dimes? I’m very overweight, too, so I’m not innocent of eating what I shouldn’t, but it’s paid for without government assistance.
How many of thse receiving SNAP benefits are immigrants and illegal aliens who receive SNAP and other handouts in spite of laws against it?
What this country needs is a complete new slate of politicians and bureaucrats who will obey our laws and who will represent American citizens instead of immigrants, illegal aliens and the interests of foreign countries.
Somebody like
Bill Gates
Clinton Foundation
Nancy Pelosi Institute For Insider Trading ,,,,
The list goes on.
People should get a BOX of meat, bread, oatmeal, coffee, cheese and figure it out from there.
No more foodstamps to sell or to buy sodas to sell in your muslim convenience store.
This program was created to keep people in need from starving - it was never meant to be a breeding program or a program that encourages people to NOT work which is what it has turned into.
The #1 top eligibility requirement for government handouts should be American citizenship.
If applicants are not citizens they should NOT be receiving any government handouts.
There are laws on the books to that effect but our crooked politicians and bureaucrats don’t obey our laws.
Was this the 28 yr old who has NINE kids and is pregnant with TRIPLETS?
28, pregnant and has at least 10 more years to breed.
Great.
$100.3B annual spend
41.7M recipients
$188/month in average recipient benefits
This means ~$2,405/month (or 12x the average benefit) is spent per recipient per month in overhead.
If overhead was a third of that I could still not hate the federal bureaucracy enough. I pay something in that range each month to feed my family of 8.
I bet Leticia James’ niece is on SNAP while at her aunt’s house in Norfolk.
All she has to do is claim she is paying rent when she is not.
I happen to know someone who relies on SNAP benefits. A few years ago, she was a college educated Mom, working at a hospital as a Social Worker, when she suffered a stroke at age 36. She was an active woman and a regular at the gym. After the stroke, she gained over 75lbs due to the side effects of steroid meds. It would be easy to judge her as “fat, lazy, and unwilling to work”, but nothing could be further from the truth. I know she depends on SNAP benefits to feed herself despite the shame she feels about using them. Please remember that not all obese people on SNAP are junk-food addicted slobs. It’s different if you see one paying for chips, candy, soda, etc. with SNAP, of course. There are folks that need the help and are deserving of empathy and compassion.
Trump floated that a few years ago. Great idea. The first box would have to include a pot and a pan along with a spatula.
More important question.
How many illegals receive SNAP?
Lots of angry, hungry, poor people is not a good thing to have on the streets.
Lots of folks are pretty judgmental, but the facts are the facts. What “we” think about their weight or their laziness is irrelevant because our government has caused this problem.
In the end, hungry kids are going to be pinned to Trump. Again, the facts don’t matter—the pictures are all that will matter. And the pictures will show infants starving to death on the first hour that SNAP benefits are cut off.
People around here should be girding their loins for the shit show they’ve been excited about for years.
Isn’t there a program called WIC for the starving children?
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