Melanie McGuire, Chief Program Officer with the food bank, joined Leading SA to explain the latest SNAP changes.
– The San Antonio food bank is a vital part of our community for so many families — and through various economic conditions and national policy changes — the food bank has to react accordingly.
Melanie McGuire, Chief Program Officer with the food bank joined Leading SA to explain the latest SNAP changes.So for the past two years, as many families have benefited from emergency allotment. So additional funds that they were able to leverage to the SNAP program and that funding has ended at the end of February... we’re seeing families lose 90 to $100.... it is really difficult during this time for families to adjust to that new SNAP benefit rate.
Currently, the Food Bank serves more than 100,000 families every week, a big increase from pre-pandemic levels. “Before the pandemic, the San Antonio Food Bank was serving about 60,000 families a week in our communities. And so, you know, during the height of the pandemic, we saw a doubling effect. And now we’re still at a very elevated rate for many of our families. So it does mean longer lines... we’re really trying to help families amongst various facets of food insecurity,” McGuire said.“We’ve seen the impacts of inflation, but we’ve also seen the impacts of the food supply chain.
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