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1 April 19 2023 Building on SNAP s Effectiveness in the Farm Bill Steps to Protecting and Strengthening the Program Testimony of Ty Jones Cox Vice President for Food Assistance Policy Center on Budget...federal nutrition programs including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP formerly food stamps I have worked on SNAP policy and...

Testimony for SNAP and Other Nutrition Assistance in the Farm Bill Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition Specialty Crops Organics and Research April 16 2023 Chairman Fetterman Ranking Member Braun and Subcommittee...Subcommittee Members Thank you for receiving my written testimony today regarding the SNAP program About 25 years ago I was impacted...

policy from the start and it remains so today What is now the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP was first created and authorized by Congress in 1939 to allow people to buy farm surpluses that otherwise...remain true today First SNAP remains a lifeline for tens of millions of Americans as the most far reaching powerful tool to ensure...

common to many Native families In 2016 about 60 percent of Native children under 6 are enrolled in SNAP and 23 percent of Native children between the ages of 2 and 5 in the WIC Program were obese So these...be a bit too Rube Goldberg kind of process to sign up When you sign up for Medicaid you sign up for SNAP you sign up for WIC often in different...

many hits over the years and the toll on families struggling to survive is not getting any easier The SNAP EBT program which is funded through the farm bill is a consistent source of opportunity for communities...diverse both in terms of our vendors and our customer base Almost all our eligible vendors accept EBT SNAP benefits and participate in...

based upon the annual FDPIR Monthly Income Standards The overall standards to access both FDPIR and SNAP truly need to be reassessed For example a single mother of one child has a current net monthly income...departmental staff came with COVID 19 During that time SNAP benefits were significantly increased While FDPIR has similar guidelines as the...

recommended level of fruits and vegetables SNAP is the primary source of nutrition assistance for many low income people and research has shown that participation in SNAP reduces food insecurity and allows families...

the critical work of federal nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP The Emergency Food Assistance Program TEFAP and The Commodity Supplemental Food Program CSFP to address...185 of the federal poverty level meaning they earn too much to qualify for nutrition programs like SNAP Unique Positioning in Serving Hard...

the administration and oversight of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or what we call SNAP 2 Investigations by the Department of Agriculture s Food and Nu trition Service the Department s Office...Witnesses here today will provide details but what we have dis covered is that the integrity of the SNAP program cannot be verified In all...

very important to New York State is the SNAP program It is so important that we have food for our families Some of the work this Committee has done for making sure SNAP gets to rural families using farmers...