A family of four will get $835/month in food stamps. This does not include additional WIC for infants and, of course, every kid in K-12 will get free lunches every day at school.
FYI, the most commonly purchased food using food stamps is soda and the foremost nutritional problem with food stamp recipients is obesity.
In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda
A government report shows that sugary soda is the most popular item in the shopping carts of families that receive federal food stamps.Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times
By
Anahad O’Connor
What do households on food stamps buy at the grocery store?
The answer was largely a mystery until now. The United States Department of Agriculture, which oversees the $74 billion food stamp program called SNAP, has published a
detailed report that provides a glimpse into the shopping cart of the typical household that receives food stamps.
The findings show that the No. 1 purchases by SNAP households are soft drinks, which accounted for 5 percent of the dollars they spent on food. The category of ‘sweetened beverages,’ which includes soft drinks, fruit juices, energy drinks and sweetened teas, accounted for almost 10 percent of the dollars they spent on food. “In this sense, SNAP is a multibillion-dollar taxpayer subsidy of the soda industry,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. “It’s pretty shocking.”