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Read FRAC President Luis Guardia’s statement to the House Democratic Task Force on Agriculture and Nutrition in the 21st Century. Delivered at the Task Force’s 2023 Farm Bill Roundtable on July 13, 2023.

Older adults with low incomes and people with disabilities can receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food purchasing. In 2020, over 5.3 million older adults, ages 60 and over, and more than 4 million people with disabilities received benefits through SNAP. Older adults and people with disabilities are also eligible to receive a deduction for their out-of-pocket medical costs through SNAP. Because high medical costs are one of the several barriers to having sufficient food to eat, older adults and people with disabilities are often made to choose between food and medicine. Learn more in FRAC’s guide. 

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 10.2% (or 13.5 million) of households were food insecure at some point during 2021. Families experiencing homelessness often face additional barriers to accessing food due to high mobility or lack of transportation. Homeless liaisons play an important role in ensuring that students have access to free school meals and referrals are made to provide the family access to food resources in the community. Learn more about supporting this population in FRAC’s new fact sheet, produced in collaboration with SchoolHouse Connection. 

Many large school districts across the country reported decreased participation in school breakfast and lunch when the nationwide child nutrition waiver that allowed schools to offer school meals to all of their students at no charge ended, according to FRAC’s latest report.

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To better understand the impact of providing grocery benefits to families when their children lose access to free or reduced-price school meals and the experience families had in accessing benefits, the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) surveyed 153 parents and guardians who received Pandemic EBT benefits at some point during the last three years. Learn more about the survey’s findings in FRAC’s new report. 

During the 2022–2023 school year, there was a significant increase in the number of schools and districts participating in community eligibility. Learn more in FRAC’s latest report, Community Eligibility: The Key to Hunger-Free Schools, School Year 2022–2023.

Use this leave behind in your advocacy efforts to inform your Members of Congress about the critical importance of Healthy School Meals for All, and urge them to support key legislation.

Use this leave behind to inform your Members of Congress about budget and appropriations priorities for the 2024 Fiscal Year. 

Use this leave behind to inform your Members of Congress about the critical importance of SNAP, TEFAP, and other anti-hunger programs.

Use this leave behind to inform your Members of Congress about the critical importance of supporting the American Family Act, along with other essential improvements to expand the benefits of the CTC, Earned Income Tax Credit, and Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit. 

Read FRAC’s new Summer EBT Program Brief, Looking Ahead to Permanent Summer EBT: Recommendations, to learn more about the program, how it provides a complementary approach to the existing Summer Nutrition Programs, and find ways to ensure Summer EBT success in 2024. 

Summer can be the hungriest time of year for families with school-age children. Summer Nutrition Programs combined with Summer EBT is an effective recipe to meet children’s nutritional needs during the summer. Learn more in FRAC’s new one-pager. 

Utilize this Joint Statement by National Organizations and Farm Bill Stakeholder Groups in Support of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), signed by nearly 225 national organizations and entities, in your Farm Bill advocacy to protect and strengthen the program.

Food Research & Action Center’s report, The Reach of School Breakfast and Lunch During the 2021–2022 School Year , reveals that just over 15.5 million children received a school breakfast, and 29.9 million children received a school lunch on an average day during the 2021–2022 school year — an increase of 1.6 million children in breakfast, and 10.1 million in lunch compared to the 2020–2021 school year.