Food Stamps
Date:
December 24, 2009
Policy Area:
Fiscal Policy
Economic Target:
Consumers
Action Type:
Direct Spending
Maximum Amount:
$0.50 billion
Amount Spent:
$0.50 billion
Deficit Impact:
$0.50 billion The Department of Defense appropriations bill contained a provision to extend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, while also providing more funding to help cover state administration costs fo the program and to speed up the processing of applications.
Extended food stamp program funding was originally passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Notes:
Cost reflects the total deficit impact of the provision, calculated by using CBO estimates of extensions from ARRA in the jobs bill (as passed by the House on December 16, 2009, found at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/108xx/doc10874/hr2847.pdf) but altered to reflect a two month extension in funding for the program.