{"id":818,"date":"2013-11-08T14:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/blog\/?p=818"},"modified":"2013-11-08T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T21:44:38","slug":"impact-of-snap-benefit-cut-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/impact-of-snap-benefit-cut-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of SNAP Benefit Cut in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1 the boost in the amount of SNAP benefits put into place as economic stimulus in the 2009 Recovery Act (ARRA) came to an end. This means a reduction in benefits by an average of five percent (about $36\/month or $9\/week for a family of four).<\/p>\n<div>In case you were wondering the impact of the SNAP benefit cut on Utah:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>$26 million fewer dollars in benefits spent on retail food purchases<\/li>\n<li>253,000 people receiving less money to purchase food, including<\/li>\n<li>151,000 children with less food<\/li>\n<li>38,000 seniors and the disabled with less food<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to Academy President Glenna McCollum&#8217;s press release regarding the SNAP dollar reduction: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatright.org\/Media\/content.aspx?id=6442478894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.eatright.org\/Media\/<wbr>content.aspx?id=6442478894<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources for you to recommend to clients\/patients that have been utilizing these programs:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For USDA\u2019s public information on the reductions including resources for stretching food dollars, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/llbb59m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/llbb59m<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For information from Feeding America, the national organization of food banks, see: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lpwjl5t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lpwjl5t<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 1 the boost in the amount of SNAP benefits put into place as economic stimulus in the 2009 Recovery Act (ARRA) came to an end. This means a reduction in benefits by an average of five percent (about $36\/month or $9\/week for a family of four). In case you were wondering the impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-of-delegates","category-public-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}