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Government shutdown's threat to SNAP prompts Columbus Foundation to give $500K to food pantries
The Columbus Foundation announced a $500,000 investment into 21 food pantries across the region. Food pantries are expecting a flood of demand if the federal government shutdown continues.
Starting Nov. 1, funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—the nation's 60-year-old food assistance program—could be withheld for the first time ever, leaving millions of low-income Americans facing "real distress.
Already overwhelmed food pantries, banks and churches across Massachusetts are scrambling, pleading for donations as more than 1 million people's SNAP benefits are set to expire this weekend.
With the uncertainty of SNAP benefits on the horizon, here are food pantries offering help in Greater New Bedford and Fall River.
More than 1 in 10 state residents are in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, whose benefits will end Nov. 1 due to the ongoing government shutdown.