South Carolina’s 560,000 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients will currently not get their food assistance in November through the federal government shutdown. It leaves a $104 million hole in benefits that food banks, restaurants and other local organizations will attempt to aid.
The leaders and volunteers at these community-driven resources, however, were not prepared to prop-up the plethora of people powerless to the pause in their expected SNAP benefits.
The state activated its One SC Fund to kickoff the last week of October. Gov. Henry McMaster held a press conference Tuesday with food bank leaders to speak on the fund drive…