Nearly 30 million Americans will soon lose pandemic food benefits | FOX 13 Seattle

Nearly 30 million Americans will soon lose their pandemic food benefits. The expanded SNAP benefits phase out this month, leaving low income households worried about making ends meet. The rollback comes during a time when inflation remains high. Of course it's going to fall on the hungry people themselves, the SNAP participants who, again, are operating on relatively meager benefits anyway. And when this change happens, the average amount that the SNAP participant gets per day will be about $6. The emergency funds were supposed to last through the pandemic public health emergency, which is set to expire in May, but Congress decided to end those expanded benefits prematurely.

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