DENVER (KDVR) — People lined up at the Metro Caring anti-hunger organization in Denver on Monday, needing food assistance.
In Colorado, about 600,000 people receive SNAP benefits and about half of those are children. Those dollars are put onto debit cards for groceries on a certain day each month. So, people who usually get their benefits on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd day of the month are already feeling the loss.
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Penny Grant said she did not receive her SNAP distribution on Nov. 1. Since then, she has taken the bus to four different food banks.
“It’s a little scary. I’m like, whoa, what is going on, because I’ve never had to do it. So, now all the sudden, I have to do it to eat, to survive,” Grant said…