In his State of the Union address in January, President Bush called for a new Medicare drug benefit to be available through private health plans as part of a restructured Medicare program. This new fact sheet from our series on Medicare+Choice offers some insight into the challenges of this...

Available from the Food and Nutrition Service at (703) 305-2133.

Finds that overall, the Food Stamp Program reached fewer eligible individuals in 1997 than in 1996; the participation rate decreased by 5 percentage points to 63 percent. This rate was affected by eligibility restrictions on aliens and able-bodied adults without dependents. For households without...

This report provides state information on the characteristics of elderly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants and eligibles, as well as participation rates for this group, to help assess efforts to increase their SNAP participation.

Shows that a little more than half of all food stamp participants were children, about nine percent were elderly people, and the remainder were nonelderly adults. Most households lived in poverty, and almost 90 percent contained either a child or an elderly or disabled person.