Thanksgiving volition travel from SNAP benefits for 1 successful 6 Illinoisans this year. That is the nation’s sixth-highest rate, with ostentation and a recession looming.
Over 2 million low-income Illinoisans volition enactment turkey connected the array this Thanksgiving with national nutrient assistance, the sixth astir successful the U.S.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program reports amusement 15.9% of Illinoisans received nutrient benefits successful August 2022. That’s 1 successful 6 Illinoisans.
It is besides 5.2% much residents than successful August 2021. Nationwide SNAP information accrued conscionable 0.9% during that time.
While nutrient stamps volition assistance Illinois families enactment nutrient connected the array this Thanksgiving, decades-high ostentation and proviso concatenation shortages mean SNAP benefits won’t agelong arsenic acold for programme participants.
Axios reports recovered enjoying a afloat Thanksgiving repast volition outgo families one-fifth much than past November, with the terms of a 16-pound turkey unsocial expanding 21% since 2021.
SNAP benefits per Illinois recipient were astir $250 a period successful August 2022. A Thanksgiving repast for 10 with each the stuffing is estimated to outgo $64.05 this year.
One agleam spot for Illinoisans buying their ain Thanksgiving this twelvemonth is that Illinois suspended the 1% market taxation until July, but past the taxes resume unless authorities lawmakers instrumentality imperishable enactment to extremity the tax. Illinois is 1 of lone 13 states that taxation people’s request to eat, and if the authorities tin unrecorded without that gross for a twelvemonth past possibly the wealth should enactment successful residents’ wallets.
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