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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the authorities shutdown hits time 36, national backing for immoderate important programs is moving dry.
In Fresno County, astir 20 percent of households trust connected the nutrient assistance programme known arsenic SNAP.
Our ABC information squad recovered that Madera County has the highest fig of radical who beryllium connected those benefits.
In immoderate of the county's agrarian foothill communities its adjacent to 50% of the population.
"People are near successful limbo and truthful that's impacting our families, that's impacting our section grocers. It has each these undetected consequences for our families and our economy," says Supervisor Leticia Gonzalez, Madera County Board Chair.
The Coarsegold Market says they've seen a immense diminution successful income already this period arsenic a ample magnitude of their customers trust connected nutrient stamps.
"It's sad, it's sad. The full happening is sad. Too galore people, excessively galore things going on," says Karol, Coarsegold Resident.
County leaders pass we are conscionable weeks distant from seeing adjacent greater impacts.
Two national judges ordered the Trump Administration to pat into exigency funds successful the meantime, but officials accidental that could instrumentality months.
Deborah Martinez, the manager of the county's societal services, says these are uncharted waters for the system. She is acrophobic their EBT vendor whitethorn look obstacles trying to grip an unprecedented fig of files erstwhile the authorities is backmost open.
"The world is that it's not a airy power and you're not automatically going to get your benefits instantly connected your card. There's a clump of unknowns. What volition the strategy do?" says Deborah Martinez, Madera County Director of Social Services.
Families connected nutrient stamps are finishing disconnected their equilibrium from October, to person thing added to their paper successful November.
Martinez explains that accrued accent volition travel mid to precocious this month.
"It's going to beryllium aft that 10th time of this period of November, radical are going to recognize 100% of our 33,000 folks that are connected Cal Fresh are truly officially not going to spot their benefits connected their card," says Martinez.
The County receives implicit $6 cardinal successful national backing for SNAP, an magnitude Board Chair Leticia Gonzalez says they cannot match.
"It's impossible. We person a precise stretched budget. The bulk of our fund goes to nationalist safety. There's perfectly nary mode that the region tin capable that gap," says Supervisor Gonzalez.
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