With the end of the federal government shutdown, Western North Carolinians could see their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits as soon as tomorrow, according to Gov. Josh Stein.
While volunteering at Asheville’s MANNA Food Bank on Thursday, Stein addressed the federal government’s role in “willfully” turning off SNAP benefits.
“They exacerbated people’s pain, people’s hunger,” Stein said. “1.4 million North Carolinians get SNAP benefits. Hundreds of thousands of those are children, disabled people, seniors, people who desperately need nutrition every day.”…