Some food assistance funds will be cut starting Nov. 1
Doug Hardy CTNewsJunkie.com
Oct. 25, 2013 Updated: Aug. 27, 2017 3:03 p.m.
Lucy Nolan, executive director of the Hartford-based nonprofit End Hunger Connecticut!, says the roughly 403,000 state residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will see less money on their EBT cards starting Nov. 1.
The cut comes out to about $10 per person per month, or about 5.5 percent across the board for households of one, two, three, or four people. Nolan said Thursday that the funding cut is not related to sequestration, which is the across-the-board federal spending cut that Congress put in place in 2011 if it couldn't agree to a budget deal. Rather, she said some of the money from the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 is being moved over to cover the cost of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was passed in 2010.