Association of State Expansion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Eligibility With Rates of Child Protective Services-Investigated Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

States in the US have the option to eliminate the asset test and/or increase the income limit for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility under a policy called broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE). Given associations of economic hardships, including food insecurity, with child protective services (CPS) involvement, state adoption of these policies may be associated with changes in rates of CPS-investigated reports.

Objective

To examine the association of state elimination of the asset test and increases in the income limit for SNAP eligibility under BBCE with rates of CPS-investigated reports.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional ecologic study used data from 2006 to 2019 obtained from the SNAP Policy Database an

SUBMITTER: Austin AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9871943 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature