Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), on average, per month. …

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, helps low … measure of SNAP's performance. Of the 39 million people eligible for benefits in an average month in 2007, 26 million (66 … percent) participated. SNAP also provided 81 percent of the benefits that all eligible people could receive because the …

This report presents and discusses trends in SNAP eligibility and participation from 2001 to 2008. …

(SNAP) and the program’s effectiveness in fiscal years 2009 through 2011. The estimated number of people eligible for SNAP … measure the need for the program. The estimated SNAP participation rates measure the program’s performance in reaching its … of participation rates for the “working poor,†that is, people who were eligible for SNAP and lived in households in …