People who rely on the federal food assistance program might not receive their benefits for the month of November because of the ongoing government shutdown.
Recipients of SNAP food assistance benefits across the country face a looming deadline: Come Nov. 1, their cards may not get refilled because of the government shutdown in Washington.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which serves nearly 42 million people each month, allocates money to states on a monthly basis. Benefits were largely uninterrupted over the past three weeks because funding for October was allocated to states before the shutdown began on Oct. 1.
But in a letter to SNAP state agency and regional directors on Oct. 10, the Department of Agriculture warned that there would not be enough funding to pay full SNAP benefits — also known as food stamps — in November if the shutdown persists.
FYI if you’re going to be affected by this there are places that can help you until benefits come back.
Food banks, churches, community centers, and organizations like https://modifyhealth.com/
You don’t need to starve next month.
As someone with experience in this, churches often will ask you to become a member of their congregation before they assist. Depending on where you are and what your situation is. Food banks are amazing but rarely have nearly enough resources to help even their normal visitors every week.
There are simply nowhere near enough resources to help every family who relies on SNAP benefits.
Everyone should try, you should flood city emergency lines when you run out of food and can’t get help. But the fact is, people WILL starve next month. This is what people voted for.
Yeah the thing is churches don’t do it as Charity they do it for recruitment
Exactly, churches are by and large pyramid schemes that don’t pay taxes.
They ain’t knocking on your door on a weekend afternoon because they actually care about your soul. They want to rise in ranks and get the next tier of benefits.
(Yes there are some good churches and actual spiritual leaders who care about community and charity out there but they are dwarfed by the commercial entities bedecked in crosses and bible merch.)
Your experience is not nation wide.
Which is why I wrote this:
Thank you. I’m not in the U.S. but one of my most important people is and has SNAP. They might already know of this, but I’ll have them check this out because I’m sure if they don’t they’ll be happy to have seen it.
How many food banks have the supplies to meet the needs of such a large influx? SNAP beneficiaries and federal workers are having to go to food banks
Call them and ask them.