Assistance program
State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
$48.4 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Food and Nutrition Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 10.561
- What it does
- SNAP State Administrative Expenses: Provide Federal financial assistance to State agencies for costs incurred to operate the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP Employment and Training (E&T) 100 Percent Federal Funds and Reimbursement for 50 percent of allowable expenses: Provide grants to States to provide E&T services to assist SNAP participants in moving towards meaningful employment. An E&T program may consist of many different types of components, including but not limited to: independent job search; job search training and support; workfare; educational programs to improve employability; work experience or training to improve employability; other employment oriented activities (e.g., job placement, supported work experience, Workforce Invetment Act (WIA) services); and self–employment training. USDA provide States with 100 percent Federal funding for E&T based on a specific formula. USDA also reimburses States for 50 percent of certain allowable, reasonable and necessary E&T expenses that exceed their 100 percent grant. USDA also provides 50 percent reimbursement for transportation and childcare costs to ensure successful participation in E&T programs. States are not allowed to use 100 percent grants for participant expenses. The Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grants (SNAP-Ed): Provide 100 percent Federal funding for States based on a specified formula for nutrition education for low income people.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- SNAP SAE, E&T, and SNAP Ed: Agreements are between USDA-FNS and State cooperators. (U.S. Territories qualify as States for grant purposes.)
- Authorized by
- Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, Section 16, Public Law 95-113, 91 Stat. 958, 7 U.S.C. 2025; Public Law 99-198, Public Law 105-33, Public Law 105-185,Public Law 110-246, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5, Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, Pub…
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$930.0K
<1%
Grants
$48.4B
100%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments