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Families will see a 30% to 40% decrease in SNAP payments as emergency allotments tied to the public health emergency halt in 32 states, including Nevada. Other states, such as Georgia, Indiana, Montana, and South Dakota, have already ended the emergency allotments.
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The Montana health department says it’s developing a new way to apply for the state food assistance program online that doesn’t require an email address.
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People with a passion for produce have turned their gardening hobbies into a way to feed their community.
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The new account portal on Montana’s website now requires users to enter and verify an email address in order to access their information. Before, applicants did not need to have a verifiable email to apply for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
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The new campus in north Bozeman will for the first time bring housing and food resources to the same location.
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Public schools have been able to provide free meals to all students regardless of their families’ income because of waivers Congress passed at the start of the pandemic. But families could soon have to start paying for their kids’ lunches again as food prices rise.
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As the cost of food has gone up, more people are turning to food banks for assistance. In addition to its regular customers, the Billings Food Bank is seeing a lot of new faces.
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After years of declining, Montana’s food insecurity rate is up more than 50 percent. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 165,000 people in the state could go hungry this year. That’s an estimated 56,000 more people than before the crisis.
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It is a startling statistic. A third of students at Montana State University-Billings said they have experienced times when they did not have enough food.…