{"id":23493,"date":"2025-10-27T21:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23493\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:13:07","slug":"food-banks-prepare-for-increase-demand-as-snap-benefits-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/23493\/","title":{"rendered":"Food banks prepare for increase demand as SNAP benefits halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lpnv9000e01qnbm0eef2g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The North Texas Food Bank is concerned about an increase in demand with SNAP benefits being halted during the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lr9ow000s357txvi92g1n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Clarissa Clarke with the North Texas Food Bank says there are hundreds of thousands of people who could be affected in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lr9ri000t357t44kprt0a@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;There are approximately 460,000 people that are currently on SNAP benefits in our 12 counties,&#8221; Clarke said. &#8220;Those people, if the benefits are delayed, will not be getting that funding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lr9tg000u357tc3yov9b9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The North Texas Food Bank provides local food pantry information on their website for people to look up.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lr9uw000v357tuxlzcr5e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">&#8220;They can go to our website, ntfb.org, and it says &#8216;Find a food pantry,'&#8221; Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lr9wk000w357tvoov010n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Clarke says shelf-sustainable food donations are welcome at the North Texas Food Bank or any local food pantry.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmh9lr9y2000x357t0v32cqw5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Financial donations are always welcome as well from those who can.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: Sean Gallup\/Getty Images\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Texas Food Bank is concerned about an increase in demand with SNAP benefits being halted during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-23493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}