Earnings Volatility and the Reasons for Leaving the Food Stamp Program

Ribar, David C.; Edelhoch, Marilyn; Carolina, South

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“…[7][8][9][10][11] Findings from these studies included • Between one fourth and one third of SNAP leavers rejoined the program within a year or two of leaving. • The prevalence of very low food security was relatively high (23% to 26%) among households 1 to 2 years after leaving SNAP.…”

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Food Insecurity After Leaving SNAP*

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Coleman‐Jensen

2010

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

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Households that have recently left the Supplemental NutritionAssistance Program (SNAP) are more likely to be food insecure than those who remained on the program. We analyze data from the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement to find reasons for this seeming anomaly. Analysis of a 2-year panel sample of households interviewed in 2 successive years found different conditions in 2 distinct groups. One third of households that left SNAP in one year returned in the following year and were more likely to have had very low food security in both years. Households that left SNAP in 1 year and remained off through the following year were also more likely than current recipients to have had very low food security in the first year, but by the end of the following year, the prevalence of very low food security was lower than among those still on the program. Logistic regression analysis indicates that, for households with very low food security, leaving SNAP was strongly associated with higher income and full-time employment, suggesting that most such households left SNAP because their income had increased so that they were no longer eligible.

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Food Insecurity After Leaving SNAP*

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Coleman‐Jensen

2010

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

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“…Previous research (Homonoff & Somerville, 2020;Ribar & Edelhoch, 2008) indicates that SNAP recipients are more likely to churn at the month of the required recertification interview. In this section, we explicitly explore the learning cost associated with recertification by examining the probability of churning at first recertification and by predicting churn at recertification as a function of the length of the eligibility window since our sample of older adults includes those with 6, 12, and 24 month certification periods, as well as other arrangements.…”

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“…Rates of administrative churn are known to vary from 17% to 28% (Cody et al, 2007; Mabli et al, 2011; Mills et al, 2014; Rangarajan & Gleason, 2001), and have been shown to be associated with health care utilization patterns among adults aged 18–64 (Heflin et al, 2020). Furthermore, related work by Ribar and Edelhoch (2008) focused on households with children in South Carolina and found that half of all SNAP exits were associated with a failure to recertify. These results are echoed by Homonoff and Somerville (2020) who also report that cases which fail to recertify lose, on average, $600 in benefits in the following year.…”

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“…However, when focusing on only cases due for recertification, administrative churn appears more likely among older adults than other SNAP populations (Mills et al, 2014). This may be because many states have longer recertification periods for older adults than for the rest of the SNAP population which reduces churn and exits (Ribar & Edelhoch, 2008). For example, in Missouri, the state from which data is analyzed in this study, the default recertification period is 24 months for the aged, blind and disabled, 1 compared with 12 months for most other SNAP households.…”

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Churn in the older adult SNAP population

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Arteaga

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Using administrative records from Missouri, we investigate the characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants aged 60 and older who experience administrative churn. Among these adults, one in four experienced administrative churn, and one in five experienced more than one spell of churn. Risk of churn, frequency, duration of churn spells, and the value of foregone SNAP benefits varied with individual, household, and geographic characteristics, and was more common among non‐Whites, members of larger households, and those living in urban areas. Our findings suggest that a significant portion of older adults experience gaps in SNAP benefit receipt.

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“…Although prior work has distinguished between short-term disruptions in benefits (lasting less than four months) followed by returns to the SNAP program and long-term disruptions in benefits (lasting more than four months) ( Heflin et al, 2020 ), other research suggests that the majority of those who are eligible who leave SNAP do it due to paperwork issues and very few do it voluntarily ( Ribar & Edelhoch, 2008 ). Therefore, the leaving SNAP group could represent two subgroups: 1) those who are no longer eligible, and we expect this group to be better off; and 2) those who remain eligible but face difficulties completing the recertification process, and we expect this group to be worse off.…”

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Giving kids a boost: The positive relationship between frequency of SNAP participation and Infant's preventative health care utilization

Arteaga

Hodges

Heflin

2021

SSM - Population Health

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Well-child visits are protective for child health but underutilized in the United States. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the largest federal food assistance program in the United States, has been shown to reduce food insecurity and may also promote child health by supporting preventative health care utilization. We examined the relationship between SNAP participation and infant well-child visits using state administrative data from Missouri's Department of Social Services for the period January 2006 to July 2014 for more than 50,000 infant-mother dyads. We find that compared to always receiving SNAP, leaving SNAP or receiving SNAP unstably reduces the likelihood that an infant receives all recommended well-child visits in the first year. These patterns are more pronounced for infants living in urban areas, infants with Black or Hispanic mothers, and infants whose mothers are diagnosed with depression. We also find that stable SNAP participation primarily influences vaccination rates through well-child visits, which is when most infants receive their immunizations. Given the increased public health risk of foregone care, these results may inform policy makers as they consider making permanent policy waivers to reduce the administrative burden of the recertification process and increase the stability of SNAP participation.

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Earnings Volatility and the Reasons for Leaving the Food Stamp Program

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Food Insecurity After Leaving SNAP*

Food Insecurity After Leaving SNAP*

Churn in the older adult SNAP population

Giving kids a boost: The positive relationship between frequency of SNAP participation and Infant's preventative health care utilization

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