MA Households To Receive StateFunded SNAP Benefits

HYANNIS – Households across the state will receive the first round of state-funded extra Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits on April 7, 2023. The legislation will provide $130 million to soften the effects of the expiration of federal COVID SNAP benefits, which expired in February 2023, on struggling families. “We have heard from many families on how vital the federal extra COVID SNAP benefits have been in Massachusetts to help buy food that met their nutritional and cultural needs. These extra state-funded payments will be a crucial offramp to the federal benefits and will support over 650,000 households at a…