{"id":19850,"date":"2025-10-30T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19850\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:23:07","slug":"snap-benefits-pause-pennsylvania-counties-most-impacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19850\/","title":{"rendered":"SNAP benefits pause: Pennsylvania counties most impacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWith the SNAP benefit pause looming due to the government shutdown, the Hearst Data team has looked into the county-by-county impacts for Pennsylvania. TO SEE THE REST OF THE UNITED STATES, CLICK HERE. Findings from the 2023 American Community Survey estimates around 11.8% of households in the United States received SNAP benefits in the last 12 months.Allegheny County sits just above the national average, showing a rate of above 12%. In Fayette County, that percentage is even higher at over 23%, making it the third highest. Philadelphia County has the highest number of households that receive SNAP benefits with a total of 26.3%, according to the date. SNAP benefits are expected to be paused on Nov. You can look through the data by hovering over the map below: PHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPENNSYLVANIA \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>With the SNAP benefit pause looming due to the government shutdown, the Hearst Data team has looked into the county-by-county impacts for Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>TO SEE THE REST OF THE UNITED STATES,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjcl.com\/article\/snap-benefits-ending-nov-1-government-shutdown\/69169188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> CLICK HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Findings from the 2023 American Community Survey estimates around 11.8% of households in the United States received SNAP benefits in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Allegheny County sits just above the national average, showing a rate of above 12%. In Fayette County, that percentage is even higher at over 23%, making it the third highest. <\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia County has the highest number of households that receive SNAP benefits with a total of 26.3%, according to the date. <\/p>\n<p>SNAP benefits are expected to be paused on Nov. <\/p>\n<p>You can look through the data by hovering over the map below: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the SNAP benefit pause looming due to the government shutdown, the Hearst Data team has looked into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[894,13854,13871,13855,13865,4236,2298,13856,13866,13867,13857,13870,12886,7327,13187,8101,28,13869,30,29,13858,13859,13873,7328,13868,13860,13861,13862,13863,13872,13864,66],"class_list":["post-19850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-allegheny-county","tag-allegheny-county-snap-data","tag-american-community-survey","tag-american-community-survey-2023","tag-county-by-county-snap-data","tag-date","tag-fayette-county","tag-fayette-county-snap-rate","tag-food-assistance-pennsylvania","tag-government-shutdown-snap-impacts","tag-hearst-data-team-analysis","tag-high-number","tag-household","tag-impact","tag-month","tag-national-average","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-county","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-snap-households","tag-philadelphia-county-snap-benefits","tag-rate","tag-rest","tag-snap-benefit-pause","tag-snap-benefits-pause","tag-snap-benefits-statistics","tag-snap-benefits-suspension","tag-snap-pause-november","tag-total","tag-u-s-snap-households","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}