Point of View: SNAP benefits cost a total of $85.6B in the 2020 fiscal year amid heightened US poverty, unemployment
“The government spent a record $85.6 billion on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the fiscal year ending in September. This sum, included in an October Treasury Department report, was about 35% higher than the $63.5 billion the federal government spent in 2019.”