food stamp users

SNAP program participants

People who receive government assistance to purchase food, typically through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the United States.

The term is straightforward but often carries political or class connotations depending on context—sympathetic in discussions of poverty, dismissive or judgmental when used to characterize a demographic: Politicians love to talk about food stamp users when they want to score points.

Related

benefit card · benefits · grocery · grocery shopping · poverty · assistance · recipients · eligibility · income · struggling · families · checkout · government · safety net · vouchers · hunger · nutrition · subsidies

Opposites
economic status/self-sufficiency

food stamp usersthe rich

Moneyed segment of society

millionaires · billionaires · high-income earners · the upper class · the one percent

relationship to government assistance

food stamp userstaxpayers

Those who owe the state

Family

food, foods, foodie, foodies, foodstuff, foodstuffs, stamp, stamps, stamped

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G