Key Points
- A key barrier to healthy eating is lack of access or enough money to buy nutritious food. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) healthy incentives empower Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and other healthful foods.
- SNAP healthy incentive programs encourage people participating in SNAP to purchase healthy foods by providing a coupon, discount, gift card, bonus food item, or extra funds.
- Retailers can offer incentives for foods in the following food group categories: fruits, vegetables, including legumes (beans and peas), whole grains, and dairy foods.
- Incentives can be funded by state, local, and tribal governments that partner with SNAP-authorized retailers.
- SNAP-authorized retailers can independently fund incentive programs or nonprofit and for-profit organizations can fund incentives in partnership with stores. The funding entity or store must get FNS approval to offer healthy incentives. Federal incentive grantees and farmers markets do not need a waiver.
FIM Opportunities
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) healthy incentive programs encourage people participating in SNAP to purchase healthy foods by providing a coupon, discount, gift card, bonus food item, or extra funds. Food Is Medicine implmenters may want to partner with organizations offering SNAP healthy incentive programs.
The SNAP Retailer Locator allows anyone to locate nearby SNAP-authorized retailers by entering a street address, city and state, or ZIP code. Enter your starting location and select a retailer or map point to get details and directions. If a retailer is participating in SNAP healthy incentives, you will see that information on the pop-up window. You can also use the “SNAP Healthy Incentive” filter function to search for participating retailers. https://usda-fns.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=15e1c457b56c4a729861d015cd626a23
