Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier. The CBO projected that one in seven U.S. residents received food stamps last year.
In a report, the CBO said roughly two-thirds of jump in spending was tied to an increase in the number of people participating in the program, which provides access to food for the poor, elderly, and disabled. It said another 20% "of the growth in spending can be attributed to temporarily higher benefit amounts enacted in the" 2009 stimulus law.
CBO said the number of people receiving benefits is expected to fall after 2014 because the economy will be improving.
"Nevertheless, the number of people receiving SNAP benefits will remain high by historical standards," the agency said.
It estimated that 34 million people, or 1 in 10 U.S. residents, would receive SNAP benefits in 2022 "and SNAP expenditures, at about $73 billion, will be among the highest of all non-health-related federal support programs for low-income households."
If you have a bunch of kids you don't ever have to work again. Government just give you foodstamps and you can survive off that. My landlord said a woman rents from him, has 20 kids, and gets nearly 20k in foodstamps a month. I only have $10 dollars extra each week for food. I applied, and I was turned down even though my income was low enough. They turned me down because I'm in college improving my life so i can make a contribution to society. They did say, that if I was doing a federal work study at school, that they'd give me 15 dollars worth of foodstamps a month. I'm starting a federal work study in a few weeks to help with cancer research. Screw that 15 extra dollars in foodstamps though, it just feels like an insult. I guess if you just want to shit out kids for the rest of your life and you don't want to ever work, you can get foodstamps, but if you do have any plans for self-improvement you are screwed. Let them all starve. I do.