Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas

Four awards, not four families

Filter USAspending assistance to SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM and to Texas (TX). Four rows survive. They sum to $16,910,688,170.81. SNAP benefits to households are typically issued through a state agency. The federal-to-state award can appear as one or a few large USAspending actions even while millions of electronic benefit transfers happen off this table.

The implied mean is about $4,226,672,000 per award. That figure is the size of the assistance vehicles in the extract. It is not a monthly allotment and not an average household benefit. The packet has no household count, no participation rate, and no error-rate statistic.

Texas federal spending is every program tagged to TX. CFDA 10.551 is SNAP in every state. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas is the intersection. Texas programs lists sibling CFDA cells. All spending ties indexes other joins.

Retailer redemptions and state issuance calendars would each produce a different integer. None of those integers is 4 except by coincidence. Keep the nouns attached: four USAspending award actions, SNAP Catalog 10.551, Texas place of performance.

Texas SNAP sits near Texas SLFRF in dollars and nowhere near it in award count. Two Catalog numbers can both be large without being the same spending stream.

What a SNAP place-of-performance tag can hide

Place-of-performance for 10.551 often follows the state administering agency. A Texas tag says the award was coded to TX, not that every redeemed benefit was spent in a particular county. Benefits issued to a Texas case can be redeemed across state lines; benefits issued elsewhere can be redeemed in Texas. Neither flow is a field in this packet.

Related nutrition Catalog numbers — school meals, WIC, commodity programs — are not 10.551. Adding them to $16,910,688,170.81 would be a different extract. This page keeps SNAP only.

The four-award texture is common for this CFDA in large states. It does not mean Texas posted SNAP ‘efficiently’ or ‘thinly.’ It means the prime file is coarse. Subawards and EBT issuances are not exploded here.

Emergency allotments, if coded to 10.551, would already be inside the four rows. If coded elsewhere, they are outside. This packet does not say which. Do not add a disaster-nutrition story onto $16,910,688,170.81 without a new extract.

Questions

How much SNAP funding is obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov shows $16,910,688,170.81 across 4 awards for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CFDA 10.551) tagged to Texas. That is an obligation join, not household benefits already issued.

Why does Texas SNAP show only 4 awards?

SNAP federal funding often appears as a few large assistance awards to the state administering agency. This packet counts 4 USAspending actions. It does not count households, EBT transactions, or retailers.

Is this the same as school lunch funding in Texas?

No. School meals use other CFDA numbers. This join is only 10.551, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, with a Texas geography tag.

Where is the overlay for Texas SNAP?

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Texas. Parents are Texas federal spending, Texas programs, and CFDA 10.551. All spending ties lists other program-state pairs.