COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Within days of the federal government reopening, more than 260,000 South Carolina households had their full November food assistance benefits back on their EBT cards .

But food banks across the state still need help to ensure the estimated one in eight South Carolinians considered food insecure don’t go hungry.

“When we think about the past six weeks, it’s been a whirlwind of activity,” Harvest Hope Food Bank CEO Erinn Rowe said. “There’s been so many positive things that’s happened. We are very grateful our SNAP has been turned back on, but we’re still seeing the residual effects of that.”

Harvest Hope, South Carolina’s largest food bank, serving the Upstate, Midlands, and Pee Dee, said its donations were already strapped before the need across its 20-county ar

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