"Benefit Redemption Patterns in SNAP - FY 2022"

On May 13,  FNS published the “Benefit Redemption Patterns in the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Fiscal Year 2022” report.

This study is the fourth in a series of periodic reports to examine how SNAP households use their monthly benefits, including number of purchases per month, average purchase amount, types of retailers frequented, and rate at which households exhaust their benefits over the month. This particular study assessed monthly redemption patterns during FY 2022, when SNAP benefits were much larger than usual due to pandemic funding, including emergency allotment and Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) for households with school-age children, and the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan reevaluation, which increased SNAP benefit amounts. The study also examined how the increased monthly benefit amounts may have changed redemption patterns since FY 2017 when the last study was done. By FY 2022, SNAP households could also use SNAP to purchase groceries from authorized online retailers, so the study analyzed benefits redeemed through online purchasing. Read more