President Trump cut SNAP benefits

Governor Healey has ordered SNAP benefits to be processed in full immediately. SNAP recipients who have missed a payment should start seeing benefits on their cards beginning November 8, 2025. Recipients who have not yet missed their payment will receive their benefits on their typical date.

Help finding food is still available. Project Bread runs a free confidential FoodSource Hotline at 1-800-645-8333 to help you find food. Residents facing immediate hunger can also contact their local food bank, including the 4 regional food banks listed below. Your EBT Card will work if it has funds.

Governor Healey and all 13 United Way chapters in Massachusetts announced a statewide effort to support hungry families through the United Response Fund. Individuals and businesses are able to give monetary contributions to the United Response Fund, which will rapidly distribute the funding to organizations and communities in need. 

Individuals and businesses can also give monetary contributions to, organize food drives, and volunteer with local food banks, including the 4 regional food banks in Massachusetts. You can also give monetary contributions to support Project Bread's Food Source Hotline. 

Farms and retailers with unsold food they wish to donate can contact Spoonfuls, the largest food recovery operation of its kind in New England. Spoonfuls picks up food five days per week and deliver it directly, same day, to community organizations like local pantries, meal programs, shelters, senior centers, after school programs, and more that serve neighbors facing food insecurity. Businesses with surplus food and hunger relief organizations in need of food are encouraged to register and list themselves on MassGrown Exchange.

Boston Area Gleaners organizes volunteers to harvest surplus crops for delivery to food banks, pantries, and community kitchens in Eastern Massachusetts and also provides trucking and transportation services.  

Food for Free picks up extra food from grocery stores and wholesale distributors and redistributes to community food pantries, homeless shelters, and other food access organizations in Greater Boston.  

Food Link rescues and distributes nutritious food from local farmers, distributors, wholesalers and restaurants to recipient agencies that serve people facing food insecurity.