The longer SNAP benefit recipients go without assistance, chances grow significantly for more problems.
CEO Kimberly Williams of Dallas-based Interfaith Family Services is very concerned about a spike in evictions because families will have to choose between buying food or paying their rent and utilities.
"We're asking people to contribute to Interfaith right now and the funds will either go to supplement our food pantry or they will go to our Rent and Utilities Assistance Fund which goes 100 percent to families," Williams said.
Williams says that most food banks are only able provide about one-tenth of what families get under the SNAP program.
She says the longer this drags out the more of a chance we could see Covid-like evictions.
"We're going to see an increase in evictions," Williams said. "People are going to have to choose between food and rent."
The loss of SNAP benefit funding comes as a side effect of the ongoing government shutdown.