During the pandemic, all SNAP recipients had their benefits boosted though an Emergency Allotment program.
Perhaps the fastest shock to the system has come in the SNAP program, the monthly food-assistance vehicle commonly known as food stamps. READ MORE: ‘Why aren’t you taking care of us?’ Why long COVID patients struggle for solutions The Census Bureau reported last year that COVID relief efforts and others sharply reduced childhood poverty. The child tax credit was increased, unemployment benefits and food assistance were expanded, and a federal moratorium on eviction kept people in their homes even if they were unable to pay rent. “The work won’t stop,” she said, with the administration working to ensure continued access to COVID vaccines, treatments and tests and to tackle long-COVID.ĭuring the height of the pandemic, safety net programs gave Americans a lifeline. “The people we serve always seem to be playing catch-up.”Īt Thursday’s White House briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took note of the end of the public health emergency. “People are starting to get their jobs back, but it’s still not all the way back and everything is more expensive than before the pandemic,” said Radha Muthiah, president of the Capital Area Food Bank. While these measures were always designed to be temporary, their expiration is inevitably producing hardship and confusion.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country’s formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic.īut behind the scenes, several core aspects of America’s pandemic-era emergency safety net are also coming to a close, from extra food assistance to automatic reenrollment in Medicaid.
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