Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recorded $71.2 billion of federal assistance obligations under this Assistance Listing in fiscal year 2026, which ranks 9 of 1,888 assistance programs with a figure in FY2026.
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Identifiers
- Assistance Listing
- 10.551
The record
| Obligated · FY2026Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure. | $71,154,186,126USD |
|---|---|
| Rank among assistance programs · FY2026 | 9 of 1,888by obligations |
| Share of all assistance programs · FY2026Of $4.1 trillion, which is what every assistance program the publisher reported obligated in FY2026 — not the federal total, which is larger. | 1.7%percent |
By fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2022 | $131,423,535,346 |
| FY2023 | $118,603,137,089 |
| FY2024 | $84,808,712,630 |
| FY2025 | $87,123,680,427 |
| FY2026 | $71,154,186,126 |
The publisher holds five fiscal years of this breakdown. A year missing from this table is a year this assistance program was not reported in, not a year of no spending.
The nearest ranks
| Rank | assistance program | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability | $177,844,033,496 |
| 7 | Social Security Disability Insurance | $133,085,734,280 |
| 8 | Social Security Survivors Insurance | $98,246,718,745 |
| 10 | Supplemental Security Income | $59,630,309,518 |
| 11 | Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers | $35,814,461,609 |
| 12 | Federal Pell Grant Program | $29,471,530,796 |
What this data cannot show
- The fiscal year is not over. These are obligations recorded so far, and a figure here is not comparable with a full year.
- An obligation is a binding commitment to pay, not money paid. Outlays are reported separately and the two are never equal in the same year.
- Assistance only — grants, loans, direct payments and insurance. Contracts carry no Assistance Listing number and are not in this figure.
- This page is built from the database rather than from the committed extract, so it covers every assistance program the publisher reported and not only the largest hundred the ranking names. Both come from the same ingest on the date above.
Related
Sources
- USAspending API v2 — dimension aggregations — U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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