CLEVELAND, Ohio — Roughly 4,200 refugees, asylees and other non-citizens legally residing in Cuyahoga County have already lost their SNAP benefits – an early sign of the much larger crisis that could hit 190,000 more residents if the federal food assistance stops next month.

President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” passed and signed earlier this year, changed eligibility requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), adding work requirements and more frequent renewals for some recipients while eliminating access for non-citizens.

Under the bill, only U.S. citizens are eligible for the food assistance, along with green card holders who have lived in the U.S. for five years and some Haitian and Cuban nationals. Refugees from other countries, human trafficking

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