Almost 45k Alabama Residents to Lose Food Stamp Benefits

Starting in April, Alabama will cut almost 45,000 people’s access to the food assistance program known as SNAP (commonly known as food stamps), increasing hunger and hardship for some of the state’s poorest residents.

Many Alabama citizens may not know their assistance will be cut.

This cut comes at a time when joblessness and part-time employment for many SNAP-eligible groups is higher than pre-Recession levels.

Over twenty other states are also cutting assistance, and as a result 500,000 to one million people across the country will begin to lose access nationwide this month.