CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP could see about $230 billion in cuts. Now, people in Central Illinois are worried they might have food access taken away.
“The SNAP program, also known as food stamps, has been around for about 50 years,” Champaign County Healthcare Consumers Executive Director Claudia Lennhoff said.
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And for that long, SNAP has been funded by the federal government. But now that might change. SNAP provides money for people under certain income thresholds depending on how many people are in your household.
“So that they can purchase nutritious food,” Lennhoff said…