More than 1.2 million people in our state rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put food on the table — including children, seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, and workers earning low wages. Meanwhile, food banks and local partners are serving record numbers of households and emergency food providers are stretched beyond capacity.
This includes implementation timelines tied to new SNAP cost-sharing requirements and 'quality control' sampling periods that were disrupted by the government shutdown.
Without administrative adjustments in the U.S. Farm Bill that's currently underway, hunger will worsen in our community. The situation could overwhelm local partners who simply cannot fill the gap left by disruptions to SNAP.
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