Food Stamps & Inflation
PolitiFact claims that a Republican bill to reform Food Stamps “would bar increases to monthly SNAP benefits” for “inflation,” which “would in effect become cuts.”
IN FACT, the Republican bill would bar presidents from increasing SNAP benefits above and beyond the rate of food inflation, which Biden did for the first time in the history of the program. Per the Government Accountability Office, the Biden administration raised SNAP benefits by “21 percent compared to the previous inflation-adjusted” amount without adequate “economic analysis,” “disclosure,” or “documentation.”
