Texas OAA Nutrition Programs

PROGRAM PROFILE

TOTAL OLDER AMERICANS ACT NUTRITION EXPENDITURES
TOTAL LEVERAGED NUTRITION PROGRAM EXPENDITURES
SENIORS SERVED BY MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAMS

Home-Delivered
Congregate

MEALS SERVED BY MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAMS
Home-Delivered
Congregate

CLIENT PROFILE (seniors receiving OAA nutrition or other supportive services)

  • 46% Live in Poverty
  • 47% Belong to a Minority Group
  • 29% Live in a Rural Community

FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

Funding for OAA programs is provided through the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-HHS-Education) annual appropriations bill, and dollars are allocated to states based on a formula. Since FY 2010, federal OAA Appropriations to Texas’s nutrition programs have fallen while the need is escalating at an unprecedented pace.


 

$32,277,902
$74,408,242
134,760

63,442
71,318

16,401,162
11,558,470
4,842,692

WE CAN PROVIDE

Nutrutious meals to a senior for an entire year FOR LESS THAN $1,135.

THE OAA covers 43% of that cost. Programs rely on contributions from state, local, private donations and other resources to cover the rest.