DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) – Snap funding was cutoff Saturday and local food pantries in Illinois are seeing an increase in demand for food assistance.
Despite a federal court ruling to resume SNAP funding during the current shutdown, the Trump Administration made a court filing Monday saying it would only restore partial funding for November to the 42 million people nationwide using the program. The White House warned funding may take some time to resume.
While funds were stopped Saturday food pantries like the Northeast Community Fund in Decatur opened for business Monday for the first time since the cutoff. A line formed outside of Northeast well before its doors opened for the day.
Northeast normally serves about 200 people a day. Even before Monday the number had increased to about 226 to 230 people. Demand for food at Northeast is up by about 35 percent from the same time-period a year ago.
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