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Food Stamp Recipients' Patterns of Benefit Redemption

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  • Bartlett, Susan H.
  • Hart, Margaret M.
  • Abt Associates

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Excerpts from the Executive Summary: Little is known about how food stamp recipients spend their benefits. Paper food stamp coupons, the standard means by which the benefits are provided, carry no personal identification. Thus they provide no data on how quickly an individual household redeems its benefits, or in what stores. The Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) demonstration that operated in Reading, Pennsylvania, created as a by-product a unique data base on recipients' use of benefits. It contains a record of every transaction through which households participating in the demonstration redeemed their benefits. The research presented in this report takes advantage of that database. The research addresses four major topics: · Number, Value, and Timing of Food Stamp Purchases · Patterns of Benefit Exhaustion · Number and Type of Stores Used by Households · Periods of Inactivity

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  • Bartlett, Susan H. & Hart, Margaret M. & Abt Associates, 1987. "Food Stamp Recipients' Patterns of Benefit Redemption," USDA Miscellaneous 358348, United States Department of Agriculture.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:usdami:358348
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.358348
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