Workers in the warehouse of Harvest Hope Food Bank pictured Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (Photo by Jessica Holdman/SC Daily Gazette)
COLUMBIA — A week into a fundraising campaign to help stock shelves, South Carolina’s disaster relief fund provided nearly $233,000 to food banks amid continued uncertainty on when federal grocery assistance will resume.
One SC Fund’s first distribution Monday to the state’s four regional food banks came two days after a halt of benefits in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The amount raised so far is a fraction of the normal aid provided through the program commonly called food stamps…