Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly

February 28, 2015
Chicago

WASHINGTON — Gene Alday, a Republican member of a Mississippi state legislature, apologized

“I come from a city where all a blacks are removing food stamps and what we call ‘welfare crazy checks,'” Alday pronounced to a reporter for The Clarion-Ledger

Nationally, many of a people who accept advantages from a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are white. According to 2013 information from a U.S. Department of Agriculture, that administers a program, 40.2 percent of SNAP recipients are white, 25.7 percent are black, 10.3 percent are Hispanic, 2.1 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent are Native American.

In a dual congressional districts that overlie Alday’s state legislature district, some-more African-Americans than whites accept food stamps, according to USDA data

Twenty-three million households and 47 million Americans perceived advantages on an normal month in 2013; enrollment declined somewhat to 22 million households and 46 million people in 2014. Three-quarters of those households enclosed a child, an aged chairman or someone with a disability. The normal monthly advantage per domicile was $274 in 2013 and $256 final year.

Republicans are conducting a examination of nourishment assistance lamented 1 million people will be kicked off a rolls by subsequent year

Nearly one-third of food stamp beneficiaries lived in a domicile where during slightest one member had some warranted income in 2013. Different states have opposite eligibility manners for a program, though sovereign law puts a top income extent during 200 percent of a misery line, now $20,090 for a family of three. Many SNAP recipients validate formed on their appearance in another means-tested program, such as Medicaid or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.