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Mono County readies prepaid grocery cards, expanded pantry distributions after CalFresh/SNAP issuance delays
Summary
Mono County Health and Human Services asked supervisors to authorize up to $100,000 from vacancy savings and $5,000 for pantry supplies to provide prepaid grocery cards and expanded distributions while state and federal systems restore CalFresh benefit issuance.
Mono County Health and Human Services on Tuesday outlined an emergency plan to support residents whose federal CalFresh (SNAP) benefits have been delayed while state and federal systems implement temporary issuance tables.
HHS Director Kathy Peterson told supervisors that the federal funds for SNAP do not pass through the county but go from USDA to state systems and then to recipients’ EBT cards; California must build temporary system “issuance tables” before USDA partial payments can be loaded. That process could take one to three weeks after federal funds are released and the payments would be phased in over about 10 days, Peterson said.
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