U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition – Addressing Special Populations, Testimony of Abby J. Leibman, President and CEO MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, Washington, DC, January 12, 2016.

“Perhaps the  best way to prevent hunger among veterans is to protect and strengthen the SNAP program. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that SNAP effectively reduces food insecurity and poverty rates, contributes to savings in long- term health care costs, and positively impacts long-term health, education, and economic self-sufficiency outcomes. And yet, recent attempts to cut SNAP – including a proposal during the last Farm Bill process that put 170,000 veterans’ benefits at risk–only exacerbate the problem of veteran hunger. And right now, an estimated 60,000 veterans face the loss of SNAP benefits because of the expiration of the time limit waiver for ABAWDs. Cuts to SNAP, in addition to causing harmful impacts on American families struggling to get by and get back on their feet, also hurt military families and veterans who receive critical assistance from the program..”