New Contract Award: Extent of Trafficking in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: 2015-2017
September 11, 2018

MSG has been awarded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s “Extent of Trafficking in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: 2015-2017”. Although SNAP retailer trafficking does not increase costs to the Federal Government, it is a diversion of program benefits from their intended purpose of helping low-income families purchase nutritious food. This study will update the series by calculating the retailer trafficking estimates for the period spanning 2015-2017.

Under this work, MSG will update retailer trafficking estimates by generating the “current” estimates for the period spanning 2015-2017 and produce the eighth report in the series on retailer trafficking estimates.