This visualization represents a joint effort of the U.S. Census Bureau, the Food and Nutrition Administration, the Economic Research Service and our state partners to use state administrative records to estimate SNAP eligibility rates at the state and county levels.
This study sought to better understand the root causes of SNAP application timeliness concerns. A comprehensive in-depth study of program components and practices adopted by the 50 states and the District of Columbia to process SNAP applications was conducted.
This report, the latest in a series of annual reports on WIC eligibility, presents 2016 national and state estimates of the number of people eligible for WIC benefits and the percents of the eligible population and the US population covered by the program, including estimates by participant category.