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Ashe County DSS warns SNAP benefits disrupted by federal shutdown; launches local food response
Summary
Ashe County Department of Social Services told commissioners Nov. 3 that a federal government shutdown prevented November SNAP benefits from being loaded for the county’s recipients, affecting 1,872 families and 3,545 participants; DSS announced local food drives and formation of an Ash Food Council to coordinate relief.
Tracy, director of Ashe County Department of Social Services, told the board on Nov. 3 that the federal government shutdown had prevented Food and Nutrition Service (SNAP/EBT) benefits from being loaded for November. Tracy said the county has 1,872 families enrolled in food and nutrition services, representing 3,545 participants, and emphasized that the existing balances on EBT cards were still available but that some recipients would not receive scheduled November benefits.
"Whatever money they already had on their card that they may not have spent,…
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