As summer winds down, many Northeast Ohioans are stretching smaller budgets to cover higher costs. The Greater Cleveland Food Bank is seeing its highest demand for food assistance ever.
February marked the end of extra payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program . The pandemic-era emergency allotments had been providing hundreds of additional dollars to low-income families and individuals.News 5 interviewed her and her husband Ernest the week they received their final emergency allotment of SNAP benefits in early March. They’re now receiving more than $200 less per month and said they’re feeling the difference.
“We’re just trying to survive,” Trasheena Perkins said Thursday as she picked up groceries for her family of five. “It impacted me a lot. Now I have to spend cash or find cash or ask family members for cash. It’s a very big deal,” she said. A recent study by the Ohio Association of Food Banks found 68% of Ohioans had to choose between food and transportation, and 66% had to choose between food and utilities. Warzocha worries there’s little relief in sight.
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