SNAP Recipients Concerned About Rising Prices as Pandemic Emergency Allotments Phasing Out

SNAP Recipients Concerned About Rising Prices as Pandemic Emergency Allotments Phasing Out
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits at a Brooklyn grocery store in New York, on Dec. 5, 2019. Scott Heins/Getty Images
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As food prices continue to soar nationwide, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) states as of this month that pandemic-era food stamp benefits will end, while families receiving those benefits say they’re being put in a financial bind.

“I didn’t even know this was happening until I saw it on the news last night,” Gale Gurule, who is a single mother with two children in Sacramento, California, told The Epoch Times. “Right now, I get the maximum amount, but I hear I’m going to get about $200 less and these kids love to eat.”

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