What are extra COVID SNAP benefits? SNAP Emergency Allotments (“extra COVID SNAP benefits”) was a temporary benefit program put in place in response to the public pandemic health emergency, with funding made available to states under the federal Families First Coronavirus Relief Act of 2020. [...]
Pandemic-era relief programs are phasing out, which includes the recent conclusion of the Emergency SNAP Allotments (“extra COVID SNAP benefits”). For the past three years, thanks to federal funding, families in CT and many other states have received additional SNAP benefits that they would not [...]
End Hunger Connecticut! (EHC!) is excited to announce it was awarded a three-year “Policy and Advocacy Grant” in the amount of $130,000 from Tufts Health Plan Foundation to implement its proposed project, “Improving SNAP Experience for Older Adults to Increase Food Security.” The award is [...]