KIMBERLY, Idaho — The Rock Creek Food Pantry in Kimberly is bracing for a surge in families seeking food assistance after the USDA announced Monday that roughly 130,000 Idahoans will receive only half of their November SNAP benefits.

The federal agency said it will spend $4.65 billion in contingency reserve funds to cover the remaining half of November's benefits, but those payments could still be weeks away from reaching recipients' accounts.

"I find it to be unreasonable, almost unconscionable, that in America — of all the countries in the world — that people go without food. It just should not happen," said Robyn Moss, chair of Rock Creek Food Pantry.

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