Series Overview
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides nutrition assistance to eligible individuals and households with low-income. SNAP is the largest domestic nutrition assistance program we administer.
We publish national SNAP participation rates, which are estimated percentages of people who are eligible for SNAP who participate in the program. In the list below, you can access published reports that go back to 1994.
Each report includes national participation and benefit receipt rates for all individuals, households, and certain subgroups. Most reports compare rates across fiscal years (FY) to demonstrate recent trends in SNAP participation. As a result, these reports are typically referred to as Trends in SNAP Participation Rates.
Series Reports
Publication date is included in parenthesis next to each FY.
- FY 2020 and 2022 (October 2024)1
- FY 2016-20 (December 2022)
- FY 2016-19 (March 2022)
- FY 2016-18 (May 2021)
- FY 2010-17 (September 2019)
- FY 2010-16 (July 2018)
- FY 2010-15 (June 2017)
- FY 2010-14 (June 2016)
- FY 2010-13 (August 2015)
- FY 2010-12 (July 2014)
- FY 2010-11 (February 2014)
- FY 2010 (December 2012)
- FY 2002-09 (August 2011)
- FY 2001-08 (June 2010)
- FY 2000-07 (June 2009)
- FY 2000-06 (June 2008)
- FY 1999-05 (June 2007)
- FY 2004 (June 2006)
- FY 2003 (July 2005)
- FY 1999-02 (September 2004)
- FY 1999-01 (June 2003)
- FY 1994-00 (June 2002)
- FY 1994-99 (October 2001)
- FY 1994-98 (November 2000)
- September 1997 (November 1999)
- August 1995 (October 1997)
- January 1994 (March 1997)
1 There was no report covering FY 2021 because data were incomplete due to COVID-19 pandemic-related administrative waivers in place through most of the year.