Expanded food assistance benefits extended through November

gle to put food on the table as a result of the pandemic,” Robert Gordon, director of the MDHHS, said. Michigan families uti“Providing nutritious food lizing food assistance will is vitally important during continue to see expanded these difficult times just as benefits through Novemprotecting residents from ber . the virus is.”

he U.S. Department of Approximately 1.5 milAgriculture Food and Nulion people in Michigan retrition Service recently apceive federal Supplemental proved the Michigan DeNutrition Assistance Propartment of Health and gram benefits. Eligible reHuman Services extencipients will see the addision. Additional benefits tional dollars begin to be have been available for an disbursed on Nov. 21 as a estimated 350,000 families separate assistance payin the state since March. ment for the month. The

“MDHHS remains comMDHHS expects all the mitted to helping families payments to be made by who continue to strug- Nov. 30.

NATALIE BRODA — MEDIANEWS GROUP, FILE A volunteer stocks the Open Door food pantry in Waterford.