The following questions were asked in regard to CalFresh requirement criteria. Criteria include U.S. citizenship (or lawful permanent resident), receiving Cal Grant A/B, and receiving food from a campus meal plan. Household size and monthly income is also looked at and broken down into a chart to show CalFresh eligibility. Students were also determined to be eligible or not for CalFresh based on their responses to these criteria questions.
Yes (%) | |
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Are you a U.S. citizen (n = 117)? | 110 (94.0%) |
I received Cal Grant A or B (n = 99)? | 86 (86.9%) |
I was approved for “work study” even though I may not actually have a work study job placement (n = 87)? | 60 (69.0%) |
If not a U.S. citizen, are you a lawful permanent resident (i.e. have a ‘green card’) (n = 7)? | 5 (71.4%) |
Are you on a campus meal plan (n = 118)? | 3 (2.5%) |
Of the participants in the survey 110 claim to be U.S. citizens and 7 claim to not be U.S. citizens. For those who did not claim U.S. citizenship, 5 people claim to be a lawful permanent residents and 2 people do not claim to be lawful permanent residents. There are 27 people who claim not to be approved for work study and 60 who do claim to be approved for work study. There are 13 students who do not receive Cal Grant A or B (consisting 12.4% of the data), and 86 students who do receive Cal Grant A or B. The majority of people in the data (115 people) do not receive any meals from a campus meal plan. Further breakdown of the 3 people that are on a campus meal plan claim the following assistance below:
How many meals per week do you get on your meal plan? (n=3, 2% of 123 reporting).
Figure 5.1: Meals Per Week from Meal Plan
Of people who receive a campus meal plan, 2 people receive more than 11 meals per week , while 1 person receives less than 11 meals per week.
The following two questions were asked about household size and monthly income, which were then combined into a single plot:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
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$150 or less | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$151-$2,082 | 7 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
$2,083-$2,820 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$2,821-$3,556 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
$3,557-$4,292 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$4,293-$5,030 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$5,031-$5,694 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
$5,695-$6,344 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$6,345-$7,064 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
$7,065 or more | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Table 5.1: Housing Size vs. Income (CalFresh Eligibility)
In the above graph, cells highlighted in green & bold indicate a person is potentially eligible for CalFresh based on their income and cells highlighted in red & italics indicate a person is not eligible. This information is pulled from the CalFresh requirements section A2 (see below for link).
The majority of people claim to purchase/prepare food (household size) for 2 people (34 people claimed this). This is followed by 20 people claiming to have a household size of 1 person, and 20 people claiming to have a household size of 3 people. The majority of people’s household income (despite household size) seems to be in the range $151-$2,082 (57 people). As the income bracket increases, the number of people within those bracket decreases drastically. Only 6 people claim to have a monthly income greater than $4,292.
This variable was created under the following criteria (n=98, 80% of 123 reporting).
Disclaimer: only county eligibility workers have the authority to determine official eligibility for CalFresh. These students are just most likely to be eligible based on the below listed criteria.
Figure 5.2: Eligible for CalFresh
We can see that the majority of participants are most likely eligible for CalFresh (79 people), while 19 people are most likely to not be eligible for these benefits.