Addressing the Looming Hunger Cliff: Improve SNAP Deductions
Households with low incomes face hard choices between paying for food and paying for other basics such as shelter and medicine. Those choices will get even harder for participants when the COVID-19 health emergency ends and, with it, the SNAP Emergency Allotments that have boosted benefits temporarily. Most SNAP participants will lose an average of $82 a month.
A SNAP deductions strategy should be an important part of addressing that looming “hunger cliff.”