USDA produces four food plans at successively higher cost levels: the Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, illustrating how a healthy diet can be achieved at various costs. Each food plan specifies quantities of foods and beverages that could be purchased and prepared to make healthy meals and snacks at home. Each food plan has an associated cost based on average prices of their respective foods and beverages at the time of publication plus adjustments each month to refle...| www.fns.usda.gov
USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service website provides information to the public about nutrition assistance programs and how to apply. We provide policy resources for program administering agencies.| www.fns.usda.gov
How are SNAP benefits “skimmed”?Thieves place an illegal device on an ATM or a retailer’s card-swiping machine to copy EBT card information. This is called card skimming. Criminals can then use the information to make fake EBT cards. This is called card cloning. Thieves use the fake cards to purchase food and beverages from SNAP-authorized stores using stolen SNAP benefits.| www.fns.usda.gov
DATE:Jan. 31, 2023| www.fns.usda.gov
DATE:December 2, 2024| www.fns.usda.gov
As of June 12, 2025, the site finder has data for the following states: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WI, WV, and WY.| www.fns.usda.gov
This dashboard displays state-reported data provided to FNS in accordance with the January 2023 guidance on the replacement of stolen EBT benefits with federal funds. All data provided to FNS will be posted here quarterly, as soon as possible following receipt.| www.fns.usda.gov
What is Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT)?| www.fns.usda.gov
Broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) is a policy in which households may become categorically eligible for SNAP because they qualify for a non-cash Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) or state maintenance of effort (MOE) funded benefit.| www.fns.usda.gov
Summer Meals and Snacks for Kids| www.fns.usda.gov
While SNAP is intended to ensure no one fears going hungry, its rules also reflect the importance of work and responsibility. SNAP has two sets of work requirements, the general work requirements and the able bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) work requirements.| www.fns.usda.gov
Summer Grocery Benefit for Kids| www.fns.usda.gov
This factsheet provides information on the child nutrition programs. Also see the child nutrition home page for the latest news and further information.| www.fns.usda.gov
This final rule - Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans - is the next step in continuing the science-based improvement of school meals and advancing USDA’s commitment to nutrition security.| www.fns.usda.gov
President Johnson signing the Food Stamp Act of 1964.| www.fns.usda.gov
Summary| www.fns.usda.gov
What is the Thrifty Food Plan?The Thrifty Food Plan is one of four food plans USDA develops that estimates the cost of a healthy diet across various price points – the Thrifty, Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost and Liberal Food Plans. The Thrifty Food Plan is the lowest cost of the four. It represents a nutritious, practical, cost-effective diet prepared at home for a “reference” family, which is defined in law as an adult male and female, ages 20-50, and two children, ages 6-8 and 9-11. This def...| www.fns.usda.gov
The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a tool designed to provide a data-driven understanding of diet quality. The HEI-2020 and the HEI-Toddlers-2020 can be used to see how well the diets of the population in the United States align with the dietary patterns and the key recommendations published in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025.| www.fns.usda.gov
Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) is part of the U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 (PL 116–127), as amended by the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 (PL 116-260), the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (PL 117-2), and the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2023 (PL 117-328) provides the Secretary of Agriculture authority to approve state agency plans to administer P-EBT.| www.fns.usda.gov
Ensuring Children and Adults Have Access to Nutritious Meals and Snacks| www.fns.usda.gov
Free Healthy Foods| www.fns.usda.gov
Beginning in summer 2023, sponsors in certain eligible rural areas could provide meals and snacks for kids to be picked up or delivered at no cost with SUN Meals To-Go. This flexible, cost-effective approach helped reach more children. In a recent survey, many sponsors (86%) said they plan to continue offering SUN Meals To-Go in future summers.| www.fns.usda.gov
SNAP State Directory of Resources| www.fns.usda.gov
Am I eligible for SNAP?Your household must meet certain requirements to be eligible for SNAP and receive benefits. If your state agency determines that you are eligible to receive SNAP benefits, you will receive benefits back to the date you submitted your application.| www.fns.usda.gov
"More than a Job" is a national campaign from the SNAP Office of Employment & Training to raise awareness about SNAP E&T services and opportunities and encourage enrollment among eligible SNAP participants.| www.fns.usda.gov
Secretary Rollins Signs Historic SNAP Waiver in Nebraska| www.fns.usda.gov