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Hampton outlines VENA emergency food assistance as SNAP halts during federal shutdown
Summary
Hampton officials described how the state-funded Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance (VENA) will temporarily replace SNAP disbursements for existing recipients, move benefits to weekly installments beginning Nov. 3, and said clients will not have to repay VENA funds if the federal government reopens.
Hampton City Council heard a briefing on emergency food benefits as the federal government shutdown threatened to interrupt SNAP payments. City Manager Bunting introduced the Human Services Director, Doctor Tamara Timoni Porter, who said Virginia will use a state-funded program called the Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance (VENA) to cover current SNAP recipients for the month of November.
Dr. Tamara Timoni Porter, the city’s human services director, told council that VENA is funded from state surplus dollars and is intended initially for existing SNAP cases rather than applicants who recently applied. "This is not SNAP but it is an emergency assistance, nutrition…
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