DES MOINES, Iowa — The USDA warns that SNAP Benefit funding will run out in November if the government shutdown continues. Food pantries are preparing for the impact.
Anne Bacon, the CEO of IMPACT Community Action Partnership, a non profit that runs a food pantry, said that if SNAP benefits run out of funding many families will need food pantries.
“We see quite a few people who have SNAP already, but there’s it’s a drop in the bucket to the number of people who are actually receiving SNAP, and so we know that if SNAP benefits stop, families will be driven into the food pantries,” Bacon said…