@article{Hanson:58315,
      recid = {58315},
      author = {Hanson, Kenneth and Andrews, Margaret S.},
      title = {State Variations in the Food Stamp Benefit Reduction Rate  for Earnings:  Cross-Program Effects from TANF and SSI Cash  Assistance},
      address = {2009-03},
      number = {1476-2016-120962},
      series = {Economic Information Bulletin},
      pages = {30},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {The Food Stamp Program reduces benefits to households as  their earnings rise. This
reduction is affected by  household participation in other Government assistance  programs (cross-program effects) and by the wide variation  in State-specific reduction rates for earnings in Temporary  Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). This study shows  that, for food stamp recipients who also received cash  benefits through TANF in 2005, an extra dollar of earnings  led to a change in food stamp benefits ranging from a  reduction of 36 cents to an increase of 9 cents. On average  across all States, the overall reduction rate for food  stamp benefits and TANF cash benefits was about 70 percent,  or about double the benefit reduction rate for a household  that received only food stamp benefits. Even with this high  benefit reduction rate, households received larger net  incomes by working and earning income. Cross-program  effects and State-level variability in food stamp benefits  are important considerations in integrating Government  assistance programs into a support system for low-income  households.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/58315},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.58315},
}