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

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.”
Gurule is one of nearly 30 million Americans who will see the emergency allotments to their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits expire Wednesday, nearly three years since the pandemic-era payments were put into place. The average monthly boost to benefits has been close to $95 per household….}