This report describes the characteristics of SNAP households and participants in fiscal year 2013. About 83 percent of SNAP households lived in poverty. Most SNAP households (75 percent) included a child, an elderly individual, or a disabled nonelderly individual, and these households received...

This report examines pilot programs in three states designed to expand access to SNAP for low-income elderly people and people with disabilities. The multiyear, multimode study, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, found that all of the pilot projects had...