{"id":34093,"date":"2025-11-02T01:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34093\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:44:07","slug":"snap-benefits-halted-nonprofit-vouchers-step-in-for-sacramento-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/34093\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAP Benefits Halted, Nonprofit Vouchers Step In for Sacramento Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t Food assistance programs through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and California\u2019s CalFresh were suddenly cut off amid the ongoing government shutdown, impacting more than 270,000 people in the Sacramento region.The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Nov. 1 that funds have \u201crun dry.\u201dBenjamin Brumer, who works with Market Match \u2014 a nonprofit that helps SNAP and CalFresh recipients stretch their food dollars \u2014 said the impact has been immediate.\u201cPeople\u2019s benefits have gone down, they\u2019ve reached near zero now. And this is a lifeline,\u201d Brumer said. \u201cWithout SNAP, without CalFresh, and without our booth \u2014 it hurts. It hurts the customers who rely on it, and it hurts the farmers who sell their produce here.\u201dMarket Match provides vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables, offering up to $15 in matching funds. Customers can withdraw money from their EBT cards and receive an additional $15 to spend on produce. Recipients can visit market information booths for tokens or paper vouchers redeemable for CalFresh-eligible food items.\u201cAt some of our busiest markets, it could even reach 600 people,\u201d Brumer added.One CalFresh recipient said the extra support made a real difference.\u201cAlways good to have some extra when you don\u2019t have anything,\u201d they said, adding that the holidays will be especially tough. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a hard time for the holidays. A lot of families and kids will be out of school.\u201dMarket Match has an interactive map where individuals can find a nearest booth near them to use for EBT purchases\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> Food assistance programs through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and California\u2019s CalFresh were suddenly cut off amid the ongoing government shutdown, impacting more than 270,000 people in the Sacramento region.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Nov. 1<\/a> that funds have \u201crun dry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Brumer, who works with Market Match \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/marketmatch.org\/about\/how-it-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> a nonprofit that helps SNAP and CalFresh recipients<\/a> stretch their food dollars \u2014 said the impact has been immediate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople\u2019s benefits have gone down, they\u2019ve reached near zero now. And this is a lifeline,\u201d Brumer said. \u201cWithout SNAP, without CalFresh, and without our booth \u2014 it hurts. It hurts the customers who rely on it, and it hurts the farmers who sell their produce here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Market Match provides vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables, offering up to $15 in matching funds. Customers can withdraw money from their EBT cards and receive an additional $15 to spend on produce. Recipients can visit market information booths for tokens or paper vouchers redeemable for CalFresh-eligible food items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some of our busiest markets, it could even reach 600 people,\u201d Brumer added.<\/p>\n<p>One CalFresh recipient said the extra support made a real difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlways good to have some extra when you don\u2019t have anything,\u201d they said, adding that the holidays will be especially tough. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a hard time for the holidays. A lot of families and kids will be out of school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Market Match has an <a href=\"https:\/\/ecologycenter.org\/fmfinder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">interactive map <\/a>where individuals can find a nearest booth near them to use for EBT purchases<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food assistance programs through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and California\u2019s CalFresh were suddenly cut off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[24497,8006,20849,3302,9182,18442,24494,6241,413,24087,6228,405,1040,24495,24500,592,8004,121,24499,123,122,24492,3304,14188,24493,24501,1519,3305,24498,24496],"class_list":["post-34093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-benjamin-brumer","tag-booth","tag-brooke-rollins","tag-calfresh","tag-customer","tag-ebt","tag-ebt-card","tag-federal-shutdown","tag-food","tag-fresh-fruit","tag-fund","tag-government","tag-holiday","tag-market-match","tag-nonprofit-vouchers-step","tag-people","tag-produce","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-families","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacrmaento","tag-snap","tag-snap-benefits","tag-snap-cuts","tag-token","tag-trump","tag-usda","tag-voucher","tag-vouchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}