APRIL 2021

SNAP Households Survey -
April Results

Fresh EBT is a free mobile app that helps over 4 million low-income families manage their SNAP benefits. To understand how the circumstances in the lives of Fresh EBT users are changing, we have been conducting surveys each month.

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April 2021 key findings

The following insights come from a 10-minute multiple choice and open response survey conducted by Fresh EBT to a random sample of 5,339 Fresh EBT users from April 1 - 14, 2021. All respondents are EBT cardholders.

01

Food insecurity has continued to drop and housing insecurity has improved; which may be due to tax refunds and 3rd stimulus payments reaching more households.

02

There are racial disparities in receipt of the 3rd stimulus and tax filing.

03

While Fresh EBT users are borrowing to get by at the lowest rates since we began surveying, they have accumulated a lot of debt.

 

INSIGHT 01

Families are continuing to experience lower food insecurity and housing insecurity is starting to improve.

Source: Random sample of Fresh EBT users

In the past 30 days:

30%

have skipped meals

1

percentage points

38%