The federal government has ended a program that was offering extra Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to those in need, but Massachusetts is stepping in to offer some extra help for a few more months. About 630,000 families in the Bay State were getting extra SNAP money from the federal government, a form of COVID-era emergency assistance, on top of their regular benefit allotment, but the last of those payments went out at the start of March. On average, the SNAP... Read this story
