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Subject Average meal costs to increase with proposed budget cuts
Date March 20, 2025 11:33 AM
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How would SNAP benefit cuts affect your community?
Around 42 million people a year rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to help meet their food needs. However, the Trump administration has recently suggested rolling back SNAP benefits nationwide. One option being explored by federal policymakers would eliminate the 2021 update to the Thrifty Food Plan, the model used to ensure SNAP benefits reflect current dietary guidelines, costs of buying and preparing food, and household consumption patterns.


How would eliminating the Thrifty Food Plan affect the price of a modest meal in states and counties nationwide?


The Urban Institute&rsquo;s interactive map shows how your state would be affected by the proposed cuts to SNAP. Based on fiscal year 2024 benefit levels, the maximum per meal SNAP benefit would be reduced from $2.84 to $2.25 if the Thrifty Food Plan reevaluation were removed. This raises the average cost of a meal nationwide to 51 percent higher than the maximum SNAP benefit.

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