Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Tennessee

What the 10.551–Tennessee join reports

CFDA 10.551 is titled SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $3,898,504,202.91 on 3 awards. The national SNAP hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,898,504,202.91 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of EBT issuances in any county.

Three awards is a concentrated assistance pattern: SNAP benefit funding typically posts as a handful of large instruments to a state rather than thousands of household-level rows. The join does not name a state agency, list retailers, or count participants. Packet facts stop at $3,898,504,202.91, 3 awards, TN, and 10.551. Correlation is not causation. Three SNAP instruments carrying $3,898,504,202.91 is a benefit-side posting pattern, not three households and not three retailers named in the facts.

SNAP benefits are not administrative matching

The catalog title names Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is the benefit-side SNAP line in this USAspending cell. Administrative matching for SNAP is a different catalog and is not mixed into $3,898,504,202.91. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 10.551, $3,898,504,202.91, 3 awards. Benefit formulas, retailer counts, and error rates are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,898,504,202.91 by 3 yields about $1.30 billion per award—a state-scale instrument, not a typical monthly allotment. Unique recipients are unpublished. 3 is not a count of families or stores.

Questions

How much SNAP funding is obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending records $3,898,504,202.91 in CFDA 10.551 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 3 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not an administrative-matching catalog. Keep SNAP and Tennessee together when citing $3,898,504,202.91. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 3 awards mean 3 households received SNAP?

No. 3 is a USAspending award-record count, not a household or retailer census. The implied mean is about $1.30 billion per award. Unique recipients and caseload counts are unpublished. Obligations of $3,898,504,202.91 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Is $3.90 billion Tennessee’s full federal nutrition spend?

No. $3,898,504,202.91 is only the 10.551 × Tennessee cell. Other nutrition catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 10.551 is not limited to Tennessee. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.551 × TN pair. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Are these SNAP dollars already paid out?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live SNAP–Tennessee table at the 10.551 × TN intersection. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.