The House Republican leadership plan to cut $40 billion from SNAP over 10 years would deny SNAP to between four and six million low-income people, including some of the nation’s poorest adults, as well as many low-income children, seniors, and families who work for low wages. The proposal would cut off from SNAP:
■ 2 million to 4 million poor, unemployed, childless adults who live in areas of high unemployment — a group whose average income is just 22% of the poverty line (about $2,500 a year for a single individual) and for whom SNAP is, in most cases, the only government assistance they receive;
■ 1.8 million people, mostly low-income working families and low-income seniors, whose gross incomes or assets just exceed the federal SNAP limits but whose disposable income (the income available to spend on food and other needs) is below the poverty line in most cases, often because of high housing or child care costs. Some 210,000 children in these families also would lose free school meals;
■ Millions of other very low-income, unemployed parents who want to work but cannot find work or an opening in a training program — along with their children other than infants.
Source: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 8/19/13, SNAP Cuts
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