Households that received both SNAP and Social Security benefits may also experience a significant decrease in their “normal” SNAP benefits after the EA allotments expire, due to the record COLA for Social Security benefits (which impact SNAP income limits) that took effect at the start of this...
Berkowitz’s study looked at roughly 4,400 low-income adults, about 40% of whom were on SNAP. When Berkowitz’s team compared how much the average person in each group was spending on health care, they found the SNAP group spent about $1,400 less per year. For comparison, the average ...