{"id":27330,"date":"2022-06-09T18:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/snap-recipients-know-your-snap-customers\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:23:33","slug":"snap-recipients-know-your-snap-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/snap-recipients-know-your-snap-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAP Recipients | Know Your SNAP Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SNAP recipients come from a variety of backgrounds and situations. While we may think we know who uses SNAP, the reality is SNAP recipients are far more diverse than most people realize, and can include your friends, neighbors, family, coworkers, etc. SNAP users are more varied and a lot closer to home than you think, in fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/food-assistance\/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 in 8 people<\/a> <span style=\"color: #022169; font-weight: bold;\">in the United States are SNAP participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/food-assistance\/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More than 66%<\/a> are people with families<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/food-assistance\/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">Almost 42%<\/span><\/strong><\/a> are working families<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/food-assistance\/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">Almost 36%<\/span><\/strong><\/a> are elderly or disabled<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/2020\/demo\/acsbr20-01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">17.3<span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">%<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> of households receiving SNAP are single-parent households<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; padding-left: 0.25in; font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #002776;\">SNAP recipients are not only diverse demographically, but geographically as well.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 0.25in;\">Overall, there are nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/fns-prod.azureedge.us\/sites\/default\/files\/resource-files\/FY20-state-activity-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">40M SNAP recipients<\/a>\u00a0on average each month, this translates to tens of thousands of SNAP recipients on average each month in <strong>every single US state<\/strong>. The top state is California with a monthly average of <a href=\"https:\/\/fns-prod.azureedge.us\/sites\/default\/files\/resource-files\/FY20-state-activity-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">4,312,002<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, with the lowest average monthly participants being <a href=\"https:\/\/fns-prod.azureedge.us\/sites\/default\/files\/resource-files\/FY20-state-activity-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723; text-decoration: none;\">22,520<\/span><\/strong><\/a> in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 0.25in;\">SNAP impacts so many people across the country, in your state, and even in your city\/town. If you are ready to take advantage of the SNAP program in your store, you can learn how to join the fight against hunger with goEBT&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goebt.com\/how-to-accept-ebt-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\">free step-by-step EBT guide<\/span><\/strong><\/a> for becoming a SNAP retailer.<strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ee8723;\">Learn more about SNAP users<\/span><\/a> from the U.S. Census Bureau. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SNAP recipients come from a variety of backgrounds and situations. While we may think we know who uses SNAP, the reality is SNAP recipients are far more diverse than most people realize, and can include your friends, neighbors, family, coworkers, etc. SNAP users are more varied and a lot closer to home than you think, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":27331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197,199,202],"class_list":["post-27330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-announcement","tag-featured","tag-industry-news-snap-ebt","tag-retailer-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29822,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27330\/revisions\/29822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goebt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}