President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging policy package will require states to shoulder part of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) costs for the first time in six decades, starting in 2028, tying their share to benefit error rates in a shift that could reshape assistance for more than 42 million Americans.
“Even states that are going to try to do their best are going to face really difficult choices,” said Gina Plata-Nino, interim director for SNAP at the Food Research and Action Center, reports The New York Times on Saturday. “Unless this is undone, it really is the end of SNAP as we know it.”
SNAP, a social safety net formerly known as food stamps, serves more than 42 million people nationwide. The federal aid program, renamed in 2008, provides monthly payments for food purchases to low-income residents generally earning less than $1,632 a month for individuals or $3,380 a month for a household of four.
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