Wisconsin Households Receiving Food Assistance Increased During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Monday, August 23rd, 2021 -- 12:59 PM

(Terry Bell, WRN) The number of Wisconsin households receiving food assistance has increased during the coronavirus pandemic.

Enrollment in the FoodShare program in Wisconsin has risen 30-percent since 2019. Food stamp spending jumped 33- percent in the same two years, to well over a billion-dollars.

Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services says more people are getting the maximum amount of benefits. In all, more than 792-thousand people are on FoodShare in Wisconsin. 

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