Ricky Padron moves a pallet of food at the Moses Lake Food Bank in January of 2024. With the government shut down at the federal level, food banks may see high demand from those who would ordinarily receive SNAP benefits, what was formerly known as “food stamps.”
October 25, 2025
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October 27, 2025 3 a.m.
SNAP benefits uncertain after Nov. 1
MOSES LAKE — Whether or not benefits through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program will be available to Washington residents after Nov. 1 is still to be determined and is dependent on events in Washington DC. Those events are still unfolding, said Matt Reed, communications director for Fourth District Congressman Dan Newhouse.