SNAP Benefits Update: Major Payments Cut Brings Massive Headaches

SNAP benefits in 2023 will be lesser than the food stamp payments recipients received in 2022 despite the cost-of-living adjustment hike due to the end of emergency allotments.

In South Carolina, around 300,000 SNAP benefits residents will have difficulty feeding their families, as reported by WYFF4.

Chad Scott of Harvest Hope Food Bank said by the end of January, recipients will go back for the first on income contingent.

Scott added that they expect that the number of their lines every week will "increase exponentially."

A household with two members in South Carolina is eligible to receive $516 for a month of groceries but will decrease to $250 starting February 1, such as in the case of South Carolina resident Lisa Marie Waller.

Waller and her daughter have been homeless for around a year, saying that it will "hurt really bad" as they rely on the extra food stamp payments.

South Carolina residents will not be the only ones struggling with the SNAP benefit update as more beneficiaries and officials across the country are seeing the same challenges.

SNAP Benefits Nevada

Jocelyn Lantrip of the Food Bank of Northern Nevada said the end of emergency allotments will cause "a rough spring for a lot of people."

Around 450,000 people in Nevada have received supplemental SNAP funding.

Lantrip said the food bank has helped in documenting the number of people since the pandemic started.

She noted that they are readying for an increase of those in need, particularly in April, adding that many seniors will see more than a 90% decrease in their benefits.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has ramped up budgets for food banks to address the expected food insecurity, with the end of emergency allotments coming.

MK Archambault, who started the Reno/Sparks Mutual Aid Facebook group, said that the majority of the people who qualify for SNAP benefits have jobs. However, their wages cannot keep up with the high cost of living.

SNAP Benefits California

Since March 2020, SNAP benefits recipients in California have been receiving emergency allotments.

If you have not received CalFresh emergency allotments for your household for November 2022, December 2022, or January 2023, they will be distributed on February 5, 2023.

The final emergency allotment for CalFresh recipients will be issued in March 2023 after the Consolidated Appropriations Act was signed.

California noted that recipients can get free food from their local food banks.

Eligible beneficiaries can receive their SNAP benefits in California quickly under the Expedited CalFresh if they meet one of the requirements such as combined gross monthly income and cash resources being less than their monthly rent or mortgage or utility costs.

Another requirement is if the household has less than $150 in gross monthly income and cash resources of $100 or less; and if someone in your household is a migrant or seasonal farmworker who is destitute, and cash resources are $100 or less.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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