9to5 Supports the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

 Dear Senator:

In seeking ways to meet pay-as-you-go requirements for priority legislation, Members of Congress and the Administration are considering cutting future monthly benefit amounts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) to fund a variety of other priorities. While these proposals may have merit in their own right, they should not be advanced at the expense of hungry families. We urge you to categorically reject efforts to cut SNAP benefits and take SNAP funding for other purposes.   More than 40 million vulnerable Americans depend on SNAP. They have very lowincomes: in an average month in 2008, 87 percent of SNAP households had incomes at or below the federal poverty level, and nearly 41 percent had incomes at or below one half of the poverty line. Nearly half of all SNAP recipients are children. Nearly one in ten is age 60 or over.   SNAP benefit levels have long been inadequate to provide a minimum healthy diet throughout the month, but the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) boosted benefit levels for these vulnerable people. The ARRA SNAP boosts were warranted when passed and continue to be vitally important now and in the future. First, SNAP benefits are crucial in helping help low-income people struggling against hunger. In the last quarter of 2009, 18.5 percent of American households – 24.1 percent of households with children – reported to Gallup that there had been times in the prior 12 months when they did not have enough money to buy food that they or their family needed. Without the ARRA SNAP benefit boosts, this food hardship would be even worse.   Second, SNAP benefits are an important component of a strengthened and sustained economic recovery. Based on USDA research, it is estimated that each $1 in federallyfunded SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in economic activity. Both conservative and progressive economists describe SNAP benefits as the best economic stimulus, dollar for dollar. Cutting back on the ARRA SNAP benefit levels would undermine the effectiveness of SNAP as a support for jobs and growth.   Even with the ARRA boosts, SNAP benefits average less than $4.50 per person per day. While the cost of food may not have risen at the rate anticipated, reverting to the inadequate previous level of benefits, adjusted for inflation, will not provide SNAP recipients with the funds needed to obtain a nutritionally adequate diet on a consistent basis. The fact that the proposed termination of the ARRA boost and reduction of families’ monthly benefits is not effective immediately does not make its impact on vulnerable children, seniors and others any more acceptable.   Rolling back the ARRA SNAP boosts would return millions of families to the situation where their SNAP/ benefits typically run out in the third or early in the fourth week of the month. It would increase hunger. It would increase obesity by making it even harder for struggling families to purchase healthy food. It would harm job creation and economic growth. It would increase the number of hungry children shortly before the 2015 date the President has set as the goal to end childhood hunger in the U.S. Now is not the time to roll back the fight against hunger.   National Organizations 9to5, National Association of Working Women Alliance to End Hunger American Commodity Distribution Association American Dietetic Association Americans for Democratic Action Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum Association of Nutrition Services Agencies Bread for the World Catholic Charities USA Catholic Health Association of the United States Center for Law and Social Policy Child Care Food Program Roundtable Children’s Defense Fund Children’s HealthWatch Coalition on Human Needs Communications Workers of America Community Action Partnership Community Food Security Coalition Congressional Hunger Center Consumer Federation of America End Hunger Network The Episcopal Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Families USA Farmworker Justice Food Research and Action Center Half in Ten Campaign Jewish Council for Public Affairs Leadership Conference of Women Religious Legal Momentum LIFT MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger Migrant Legal Action Program National Association for the Education of Young Children National Association of Social Workers National Association of State Health Policy National Black Child Development Institute National CACFP Forum National Center for Law and Economic Justice National Commodity Supplemental Food Program Association National Council of La Raza National Council of Jewish Women National Disability Institute National Health Law Program National Health Care for the Homeless Council National Human Services Assembly National Immigration Law Center National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty National Network to End Domestic Violence National Organization for Women National Summer Learning Association National WIC Association National Women’s Law Center NeighborWorks America NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby PHI-Health Care for Health Care Workers- Presbyterian Church U.S.A ProMedica Health System RESULTS School Nutrition Association Share Our Strength Sojourners The Education Trust The Every Child Matters Education Fund The United Methodist Church-General Board of Church and Society United Church of Christ, Justice U.S. Conference of Mayors United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Witness Ministries Union for Reform Judaism Voices for America’s Children WhyHunger ZERO TO THREE Alabama Alabama Council on Human Relations, Inc. 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