Current CBO estimates project a significant decline in SNAP expenditures over the next decade as the economy recovers, the pandemic recedes, and PHE flexibilities are lifted: SNAP participation will decline steadily to 33 million people by the end of the decade, according to the CBO, and annual expenditures will fall to $110 billion.92 SNAP’s economic benefits extend beyond the participants to loc. [...] Discussion topics included: • Experience using SNAP • Nutrition and eligible foods in SNAP • Nutrition incentives and produce prescriptions • Impact of the COVID-19 flexibilities and waivers on SNAP eligibility and benefit levels • SNAP employment and training programs and work requirements • Overall opinions of and improvements needed to SNAP During the virtual focus groups, participants emphasiz. [...] SNAP is the largest USDA food and nutrition assistance program and is the cornerstone of the nation’s federal nutrition safety net.99 As an “entitlement program,” SNAP provides food and nutrition assistance to all individuals and households who apply and meet the eligibility criteria, including income and asset limits.100 SNAP’s benefit structure allows the program to expand as households’ incomes. [...] Territories Congress should expand SNAP and SNAP-Ed to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in place of the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) block grants. [...] The 2018 Farm Bill expanded the kinds of E&T activities a state could provide and the elements that could be included and authorized workforce partnerships.190 34 Current Employment and Training Programs All state agencies are required to operate SNAP E&T programs, and they receive federal funding to administer and operate the programs.
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