re: How much do people get with snap??? federal assistance?

The average person in Missouri gets around $200. The average household on SNAP gets $400. Seniors on SNAP brings down the averages a little.

Rural Missouri 16% of people on SNAP
Pemiscot County 26%. A rural county in SE Missouri with a population less than 16,000

7% of households in Kansas City on SNAP
11.3% in Springfield(Greene County)
16% Springfield Metro

St Louis City 17.7% households. A few years ago over 30% of households were on SNAP
A few counties around St Louis
The lowest is St Charles County 3%
St Louis County 7.9%
Lincoln County 15.5%
Lincoln is a rural county 35 minutes away
Washington 19.9%
Washington is rural a hr south of St Louis

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Household Size New Maximum Monthly Benefit (Starting Oct. 2025) Previous Maximum Monthly Benefit 1 person $298 2 people $546 3 people $785 4 people $994 5 people $1,183 6 people $1,421 7 people $1,571 8 people $1,789 Each additional person $220

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This is just SNAP. It doesn’t not include the other benefits they may receive. The children with intellectual disability SSI payment is a big one. At my previous job a lot of my patients were receiving it because the old doctors at that clinic would sign the form that a child had a severe intellectual disability so they could get a check. Literally every single one of their pediatric patients had profound intellectual disability listed in their charts and not a single one of them had any documentation to back it up. Yes I reported one of the doctors and I would have reported the other except that he died before I took over his patients and saw that he was doing it too.