Beginning this week, [more than] 30,000 Santa Barbara County families will find themselves forced to make do with $178 less per month per household in federal food stamp benefits designed to get them through the COVID emergency. With the absences of the emergency allotments, recipients will still be receiving food stamps — better known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP — but at the pre-pandemic level. With food prices 11 percent higher this January than they were the previous year, that spells serious trouble, according to Laurel Alcantar of the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County.
30,000 Santa Barbara County Families Face Cuts to Emergency Food Stamps
