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Legislators need to hear the message loud and clear: no one should go hungry.
Calculate SNAP monthly benefits based on the USDA’s Low-Cost Food Plan instead of the Thrifty Food Plan, increasing SNAP benefits by an average of $125 monthly per household.
Allow all SNAP participants to purchase hot food and prepared meals with their benefits.
Eliminate existing barriers to participation in SNAP for seniors, college students, able-bodied childless adults, immigrants, and individuals with prior convictions.
Eliminate asset limits and arbitrary eligibility limits for participation in SNAP.
Guarantee school breakfast, lunch, after school and summer meals for all children nationwide.
Provide adequate funding to ensure all eligible households can participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
Increase federal investments in The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) in response to the unprecedented demand for hunger relief.
Fully fund food banks’ shelf-stable and cold storage infrastructure, transportation, and distribution capacity through TEFAP’s Administrative Grants account.
Increase the availability of culturally relevant foods, including halal and kosher, through TEFAP.
Visit Feeding NYSÂ for more information or click here to see our shared Farm Bill priorities.
Food banks, food pantries, and community-based organizations have reported significant increases in demand at distributions across the state. Together, we call on New York State to provide adequate funding for HPNAP and Nourish New York, our statewide hunger relief programs.
In the FY2026 Executive Budget, Governor Hochul included funding to expand universal free school meals statewide. The Legislature has championed this critical proposal and now must ensure it remains fully funded in the final budget. Statewide universal free school meals will allow nearly 600 more schools to provide free school meal for all, expanding access for more than 280,000 additional students.
SNAP is the nation’s most impactful anti-hunger program, providing ~3 million New Yorkers with vital food assistance. However, some participants receive as little as $23 per month—which amounts to less than $1 per day. We stand with organizations across the state and 66% of New Yorkers in calling for an adequate minimum SNAP benefit of $100.
We advocate to sustain a $2M legislative add-on for the Nutrition Outreach and Education Program, New York’s statewide network of SNAP navigators, ensuring full funding of $5.624M  that supports a network of community-based organizations conducting SNAP outreach and providing free and confidential application assistance to food-insecure New Yorkers.
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