additional snap benefits
SNAP (or food stamps) provides timely, targeted and temporary benefits to people in need so that Americans have access to nutritious food. SNAP responds quickly to changes in our population, growing in response to increases in poverty and unemployment, and shrinking as need is met and reduced.
SNAP Expansion Will Bring up to $688 Million Additional Federal Funds to New York State. WYSIWYG. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 750,000 additional working families are now eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program â or SNAPâ which helps fight hunger among working New Yorkers.