More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits
Posted by Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity on June 30, 2026
ProPublica reports that nearly a year after the passage of last year’s Big Beautiful Bill, “the number of children receiving food assistance has plummeted by at least 776,000. At least 12 states break down program participation by age, and of the 1,670,011 people who are no longer receiving benefits in those states, 776,134, or 46%, were children.
Another analysis reached the same conclusion: Just last month, the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found there were 700,000 fewer children receiving food assistance.”
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