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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program\n\n\n00:02:25 1 History
00:02:34 1.1 First Food Stamp Program (FSP) (May 16, 1939 – Spring 1943)
00:04:22 1.2 Pilot Food Stamp Program (1961–1964)
00:06:19 1.3 Food Stamp Act of 1964
00:10:19 1.4 Program expansion: participation milestones in the 1960s and early 1970s
00:11:17 1.5 Major legislative changes (early 1970s)
00:13:53 1.6 1974 nationwide program
00:14:25 1.7 Eligible access to Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries
00:14:59 1.8 Food Stamp Act of 1977
00:18:59 1.9 Cutbacks of the early 1980s
00:20:29 1.10 Mid-to-late 1980s
00:22:09 1.11 1993 Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act
00:23:27 1.12 Later participation milestones
00:23:49 1.13 1996 welfare reform and subsequent amendments
00:27:03 1.14 Electronic Benefits Transfer
00:27:50 1.15 Renaming the Food Stamp Program
00:28:20 1.16 Temporary benefits increase from April 2009 to November 2013
00:29:40 1.17 Corporate influence and support
00:30:50 2 Eligibility
00:31:18 2.1 Income requirements
00:32:06 2.2 Resource requirements
00:32:43 2.3 Housing expenditure
00:35:00 2.4 Immigrant status and eligibility
00:35:43 3 Applying for SNAP benefits
00:36:31 4 Eligible food items under SNAP
00:38:45 5 State options
00:41:08 6 States and counties with highest use of SNAP per capita
00:41:46 7 Impact
00:42:56 7.1 Participants
00:44:53 7.2 Costs
00:46:07 7.3 Health
00:46:29 7.4 Food security and insecurity
00:47:37 7.5 Poverty
00:48:36 7.6 Income maintenance
00:49:50 7.7 Diet quality
00:51:23 7.8 Macroeconomic effect
00:53:50 7.9 Local economic effects
00:54:51 7.10 Fraud and abuse
01:02:08 8 Role of SNAP in healthy diets
01:02:19 8.1 Background
01:03:41 8.2 Administrative responsibility
01:04:19 8.3 Proposals to restrict "junk food" or "luxury items"
01:06:02 9 See also
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SNAP benefits cost $70.9 billion in fiscal year 2016 and supplied roughly 44.2 million Americans (14% of the population) with a monthly average of $125.51 per person in food assistance. Beneficiaries and costs increased sharply with the Great Recession, peaked in 2013 and have declined through 2016 as the economy recovered. It is the largest nutrition program of the 15 administered by FNS and is a key component of the social safety net for low-income Americans.The amount of SNAP benefits received by a household depends on the household's size, income, and expenses. For most of its history, the program used paper-denominated "stamps" or coupons – worth $1 (brown), $5 (blue), and $10 (green) – bound into booklets of various denominations, to be torn out individually and used in single-use exchange. Because of their 1:1 value ratio with actual currency, the coupons were printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Their rectangular shape resembled a U.S. dollar bill (although about one-half the size), including intaglio printing on high-quality paper with watermarks. In the late 1990s, the Food Stamp Program was revamped, with some states phasing out actual stamps in favor of a specialized debit card system known as Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), provided by private contractors. EBT has been implemented in all states since June 2004. Each month, SNAP benefits are directly deposited into the household's EBT card account. Households may use EBT to pay for food at supermarkets, convenien ...