Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Massachusetts

What the 10.551–Massachusetts join is

CFDA 10.551 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Crossed with Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $5,967,372,468.91 on 3 awards. The national SNAP hub includes other states. Massachusetts’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $5,967,372,468.91 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of SNAP households in Boston, Springfield, or Worcester.

Three awards is a concentrated formula-assistance pattern: SNAP often posts as a small number of large instruments to a state agency that then issues benefits. The join does not name DTA, list retailers, or count eligible people. Packet facts stop at $5,967,372,468.91, 3 awards, MA, and 10.551. North Carolina and Michigan 10.551 cells are different state joins, not addends.

10.551 is not school lunch or WIC

National School Lunch Program (CFDA 10.555) and WIC are different USDA catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $5,967,372,468.91 would invent a broader nutrition total than this cell contains. SNAP employment and training and other 10.xxx lines use other numbers still. Facts available: Massachusetts, CFDA 10.551, $5,967,372,468.91, 3 awards. Caseload and benefit-issuance counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, not a ranking of county food insecurity. Dividing $5,967,372,468.91 by 3 yields about $1.99 billion per award—a statewide pass-through scale, not a typical monthly SNAP allotment. Unique recipients are unpublished. 3 is not a count of grocery stores.

Questions

How much SNAP funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending records $5,967,372,468.91 in CFDA 10.551 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance on 3 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not school lunch. Keep Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Massachusetts together when citing $5,967,372,468.91.

Why are there only 3 SNAP awards?

SNAP often posts as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state agency. The facts show 3 awards totaling $5,967,372,468.91. The mean is about $1.99 billion. Household names are unpublished.

Is this Massachusetts’s total USDA nutrition spending?

No. This join is CFDA 10.551 only. School lunch and other nutrition catalogs appear on separate Massachusetts program pages. Nationwide 10.551 is not limited to Massachusetts. Obligations of $5,967,372,468.91 are not outlays.

Does three awards mean three counties?

3 is an award-record count, not a county census. A state agency can be the awardee even when many households receive benefits. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.551 × MA pair.