Posted on 07/18/2018 10:43:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Food stamp participation dropped below 40 million for the first time in eight years, according to the latest numbers on food stamp enrollment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The most recent USDA data reveals that 39,604,428 people were enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—the program that administers food stamps—as of April 2018. The last time enrollment dipped below 40 million was in February 2010, when 39,588,993 people received SNAP benefits.
The latest data on enrollment shows that overall enrollment in the food stamp program has reached historic lows, reaching its lowest point in eight years.
But food stamp enrollment has been steadily declining over the past few months, keeping pace with the downward trend in SNAP participation since 2013.
Using the latest data from the USDA, here is the month-by-month breakdown of how many people discontinued their SNAP benefits in fiscal year (FY) 2018:
October to November- 4,015,110
November to December- 358,242
December to January- 734,178
January to February- 608,039
February to March- 32,294
March to April- 494,961
The Trump administration’s push to reform the country’s welfare system combined with favorable economic conditions in the U.S. might have contributed to the decline in people seeking assistance from the welfare program.
Under Trump, 2.5 million fewer people discontinued their participation in SNAP, mainly due to the Trump administration’s attempts to keep down program costs at the federal and state levels.
The USDA announced in March that it hired an “integrity officer” to boost the administration’s efforts to prevent fraud in the country’s food stamp program and announced in February the rollout of its “Harvest Box” program to give SNAP recipients a box of food as part of their monthly benefits package.
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How many ILLEGAL ALIENS are off welfare?
Huh, what a coincidence.
The Obama Recession is gone.
Democrats are deeply saddened.
More evil by the evil Trump and his deploreables.
Obviously people are starving everywhere you look. /SARC
Bump!
That’s gotta hurt the dems. They were planning on 100 million by now. If Hillary was in...sky’s the limit.
You read my mind!!
When the limit got hit, mushroom clouds soon after.
Like entering the Twilight Zone...
Another Obama legacy destroyed. Winning.
Only another 39 million to go, but take what improvement you can get when it presents itself...
I’ll have them n*ggers voting Democratic for two hundred years—LBJ.
Dems rapidly trying to make up the difference with Universal Income...
WINNING!!!!
Not tired of it yet, Mr. President. Please keep working.
By the way, it’d be interesting to know how much money the federal government and the states are saving each month, vs. what they were spending on this in January of last year. I think that the President should get this number and Tweet it all over the place, plus mention it in several interviews and pressers over the next few weeks.
RE: I’ll have them n*ggers voting Democratic for two hundred years—LBJ.
Was this caught on tape? Or was this just a personal anecdote?
Wonder if LBJ will be removed from history for his comment aka the founder of Papa John’s?
Winning. Not tired yet.
5.56mm
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