The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services gutted a bill that would have restricted the kinds of foods SNAP recipients can purchase with their government benefits.
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to budget this year? By all means, do it! Just be sure you take into account some of the changes in the consumer world that may affect where or how your money goes.Â
Fortunately, FRAC successfully lobbied Congress to defeat cuts to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and, through similar pressure, Healthy School Meals for All, serving free breakfast and lunch to our most vulnerable victims of food insecurity, avoiding proposals to defund the program thanks in large part to the numerous states that adopted the program. (New Hampshire is not among them.)Â
As major changes to the USDA Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program go into effect next year, local pantries and charitable organizations are stepping up to feed Granite Staters—especially as holidays and the winter season increase demand.
A warning has been issued from the state Attorney General of a new phishing scam targeting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants. It involves fraudulent phone calls, text messages, and emails seeking personal information.
NAP-only food pantries set up by DHHS and the New Hampshire Food Bank earlier this week to help those who receive benefits put food on the table will continue through Friday, Nov. 14, DHHS said. A list of pantries and food box pickups for SNAP beneficiaries can be found on the DHHS website.
Mobile food pantries and food box distribution for New Hampshire SNAP recipients begins this week across the state, with Manchester’s weekly mobile food pantry set for Nov. 13, and five-day-a week food box pickup starting Wednesday.
Two federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to use a contingency fund to cove November SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans. Benefits are due to end Saturday as the government shutdown continues.
The New Hampshire contingency plan will take about a week to put into place, officials said. New Hampshire Food Bank officials met later Wednesday to nail down details of how the plan will work.
New Hampshire is the only New England state that has not joined a group of 26 in a suit filed Tuesday against the federal government over it’s refusal to use a contingency fund to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits beginning Saturday.