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Black Hawk County residents receive $32,170,846 in food assistance benefits in 2020

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Black Hawk County received $32,170,846 in Food Assistance Program funding in 2020 for 16,759 program recipients, according to a Nodaway Valley Today analysis of data from Iowa's Department of Human Services.

This is a 43.9 percent increase from 2019, when 16,840 recipients received $22,350,732.

Qualified recipients in the Program are eligible to receive financial assistance in the form of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, which then can be used to buy groceries. The Program is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's larger Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Amount of Money Allocated for Black Hawk County Food Assistance Program Participants 2011-2020

YearAmount Allocated
2011$27,943,063
2012$29,284,433
2013$28,909,800
2014$26,924,553
2015$26,653,275
2016$26,690,999
2017$22,673,460
2018$22,829,097
2019$22,350,732
2020$32,170,846

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