Emergency benefits that have helped boost payments to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic will soon end in several states across the country, leaving families with less money and high grocery prices.
SNAP, which used to be called the Food Stamp Program, for nearly three years has been sending households an extra $95 or more on top of their normal allotment, in relief for the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In 17 states, those additional emergency benefits have already expired as of January 2023, including: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.
In South Carolina, the emergency allowance will expire following the January 2023 payments are issued.
In the remaining 32 states, plus Washington, DC, Guam and the Virgin Islands, the extra money will run out beginning in the benefit month of March 2023.
