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Norwood coordinates meal and gift-card drives as contingency if federal shutdown interrupts SNAP benefits
Summary
Town staff briefed the Select Board on a short-term contingency plan should a federal shutdown interrupt SNAP benefit issuance: coordinated meal "bags," gift-card collections, and using school, senior-center and housing authority channels to reach the most-impacted households.
Town Manager reported that the town is preparing an interdepartmental response in case a federal government shutdown interrupts SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) distributions. The manager said the town estimates roughly 2,300 Norwood households rely on SNAP and that benefits are typically distributed across the first 15 days of a month; if benefits do not arrive by Nov. 1, affected households…
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