Online Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Purchasing Grew Substantially in 2020

• Published in: Amber waves Vol. 2021; no. 7; pp. 1 - 5
• Main Author: Jones, Jordan W
• Format: Magazine Article Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Superintendent of Documents 06.07.2021
• Edition: 1490
• Subjects: 2014 Farm Bill; Agricultural economics; Consumer/Household Economics; Coronavirus pandemic; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Disease control; Expanded SNAP access; Food and Nutrition Service; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Food stamps; Groceries; Grocery industry; Households; Internet; Meals; Missing persons; Nutrition; Nutrition programs; Online purchasing pilot; Pandemics; Public Economics; Purchasing; School meals; SNAP; Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program
• ISSN: 1545-8741; 1545-875X
• DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.312216

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Online Purchasing Pilot allows households in participating States to use their SNAP benefits to purchase groceries online from authorized, participating retailers. In response to the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the need for social distancing, FNS worked with States and retailers to rapidly expand the pilot to additional States, providing access to more recipients of SNAP and Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) - a program providing benefits spent much like SNAP to households with children missing in-person free or reduced-price school meals. COVTD-19 Working Paper: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Redemptions during the Coronavirus Pandemic (/publications/pub-details/?pubid=ioo8i9), by Jordan W. Jones, ERS, March 2021 You may also be interested in...