Starting today, state residents who receive Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits will be seeing a major change.
Pennsylvania is one of 32 states that are eliminating extra SNAP benefits today. The emergency payments were put in place as a pandemic-related benefit.
Acting Secretary of the Department of Human Services Val Arkoosh says this will impact around 1.9 million people.
“Roughly 60 percent of SNAP households are families with children. Nearly half include older Pennsylvanians or adults with intellectual or physical disabilities,” Arkoosh said. “And roughly 40 percent are working families, who are working important but lower wage roles in our workforce.”
Arkoosh says it works out that families will lost about $180 per month in additional payments.
