BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - The Lovelady Center estimates it will lose $80,000 a month while SNAP benefits are suspended. In response to this, the organization is calling on the community to help them get through this period.

"It just kind of puts us in limbo, I mean we fully expect that everything will be restored but just with all the stuff that’s going on, we just don’t know when that’s going to be,” said Frank Long, the development director at The Lovelady Center.

Long says The Lovelady Center is the nation’s largest long-term recovery center for women and children.

"In house, here at the center, as of this morning, we have 537 adult females and 111 of their children. So that’s a big population to feed each and every day,” he said.

According to The Lovelady Center, it takes $1 millio

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