Food pantries are bracing to feed more hungry people as a key pandemic benefit from the federal government ends.In March, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program card holders in Illinois will see reductions of $55 to $250 per person, said Man-Yee Lee, spokesperson for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
The Greater Chicago Food Depository is a food bank that supplies food to more than 700 local food pantries. Two million people in one million Illinois households currently receive SNAP benefits.
In April 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic em …