Central Florida food banks are seeing an uptick in people who are coming to them for food since SNAP benefits ran out Nov. 1.
Initially, federal and state officials said the benefits wouldn’t be processed during the month of November, as long as the government shutdown continued, impacting nearly half a million Central Floridians and 3 million Floridians.
Federal judges, however, ordered the Trump administration to use the contingency funds it has available for SNAP. Now, the administration says it will pay for half of this month’s benefits, and those payments will be delayed…