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Title: Methods for Estimating SNAP Policy Impacts with an ACS-Based Simulation Model
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Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: This report describes how we used the Urban Institute’s new state-level microsimulation model, (Analysis of Transfers, Taxes, and Income Security, or ATTIS) to examine the possible effects of work requirements and certain other policy changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps). The changes are proposed in the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (the 2018 farm bill). This proposal to reauthorize the 2014 farm bill cleared the House Committee on Agriculture in mid-April 2018 and includes several changes to SNAP that would affect how families’ incomes are counted, how program eligibility is determined, and the work requirements placed on recipients. Many of the proposed changes are restrictions; others, such as an increase in the maximum allowable level of assets, could make some families newly eligible. (An analysis of the projected effects of the bill’s work requirement provision is presented in a separate research brief; see Acs, Wheaton, and Waxman 2018)
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Authors: Wheaton, Laura; Giannarelli, Linda; Morton, Joyce
Publisher: Urban Institue
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Poverty and Welfare
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