The Treasure Coast Food Bank is seeing more people show up for help as federal funding cuts and stricter SNAP eligibility rules squeeze local families, according to Krista Garofalo, Chief Strategy Officer at the Treasure Coast Food Bank.
“We have been seeing increases in the amount of need and requests that we’re getting,” Garofalo said, adding that the food bank’s agency partners are reporting the same trend. “They’re serving more and more people, they’re having more people show up.”
Garofalo said the organization has absorbed funding losses at the federal level over the past year, even as more residents lose access to assistance they once relied on…