CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 More than 100,000 residents across the Coastal Bend are among 3.5 million Texans who will go without federal food assistance in November after a government shutdown forced the suspension of SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, halted payments due to insufficient federal funding, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.<\/p>\n
Across 11 counties in the KRISTV viewing area, 100,986 individuals received SNAP benefits in September, totaling more than $17.2 million in monthly food assistance, according to data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Nueces County accounts for nearly 60% of recipients in the region, with 60,305 individuals receiving more than $10.5 million in benefits.<\/p>\n
More than 100,000 in Coastal Bend face food insecurity as SNAP benefits paused<\/p>\n
SNAP Benefits in the Coastal Bend (September 2025)<\/p>\n
Nueces County:\u00a060,305 individuals \/ $10,572,754 in benefits \/ Population: 352,289San Patricio County:\u00a010,558 individuals \/ $1,727,828 in benefits \/ Population: 70,660Jim Wells County:\u00a09,236 individuals \/ $1,518,974 in benefits \/ Population: 38,863Kleberg County:\u00a05,643 individuals \/ $915,896 in benefits \/ Population: 30,629Aransas County:\u00a03,277 individuals \/ $545,008 in benefits \/ Population: 24,449Duval County:\u00a02,807 individuals \/ $458,097 in benefits \/ Population: 9,824Brooks County:\u00a02,031 individuals \/ $338,395 in benefits \/ Population: 6,987Live Oak County:\u00a01,332 individuals \/ $217,362 in benefits \/ Population: 11,444Bee County:\u00a04,853 individuals \/ $804,332 in benefits \/ Population: 31,000Refugio County:\u00a0913 individuals \/ $135,337 in benefits \/ Population: 6,693Kenedy County:\u00a031 individuals \/ $3,945 in benefits \/ Population: 52
Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, September 2025<\/p>\n
The federal government shut down Oct. 1 after lawmakers missed their deadline to fund federal agencies. With Democrats and Republicans locked in a stalemate over government funding and health insurance subsidies, the USDA notified states Oct. 10 to hold off distributing November benefits “until further notice.”<\/p>\n
The shutdown affects more than 42 million Americans nationwide who depend on SNAP for food assistance.<\/p>\n
The pause will force families to make difficult choices between paying rent and buying food, according to Feeding Texas, a statewide network of food banks.<\/p>\n
Who receives SNAP in Texas<\/p>\n
Nearly half of Texas SNAP recipients are children \u2014 approximately 1.7 million minors depend on the program monthly, according to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.<\/p>\n
About one-third of SNAP households include elderly adults or people with disabilities, according to federal data. Close to 40% of SNAP households have at least one employed member, but their wages fall below the poverty level.<\/p>\n
Nationally, about 73% of SNAP households have gross monthly incomes at or below the federal poverty line \u2014 about $32,000 annually for a family of four \u2014 according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n
For eligible Coastal Bend households, the average SNAP benefit in September per household was $334, according to HHSC data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 More than 100,000 residents across the Coastal Bend are among 3.5 million Texans who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-31134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134","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=31134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}