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Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP / Tatiana Homonoff, Jason Somerville.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Homonoff, Tatiana.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27311.
- NBER working paper series no. w27311
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- Recipients of means-tested program benefits must periodically document continued eligibility through a recertification process. We find evidence that the administrative burden associated with SNAP recertification leads to decreases in program participation. Cases assigned to later recertification interview dates, which leave less time to reschedule missed interviews, are over 20 percent less likely to recertify than cases assigned to interviews earlier in the month. Cases that fail recertification due to later assignments lose an average of $600 in benefits in the following year. These losses are highly skewed: many cases quickly re-enroll, while one quarter remain off SNAP for over a year post-recertification.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2020.
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