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Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households Fiscal Year 2011: This is the most recent in a report series providing information about the demographic and economic circumstances of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households.  In Fiscal Year 2011, as in prior years, a large majority of SNAP households (76 percent) contained an elderly or disabled person and/or a child.  Among all SNAP households, nearly 31 percent had earnings and 41 percent of all individual participants lived in families with earnings.  Twenty percent of households had no cash income of any kind.  The average monthly income for a SNAP household was 59 percent of the poverty line.

 

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