Hardship to Hope Food Relief Fund

Beginning November 1, recipients expecting their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits face grave uncertainty. More than 60,000 households in Metro United Way’s service area – Jefferson, Bullitt, Oldham, and Shelby counties in Kentucky and Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana – rely on these critical benefits to provide sustenance for themselves and their families

79% of SNAP households include either a child, an elderly individual, or a non-elderly individual with a disability. As households deal with the potential absence or reduction of these critical food supports, families face an already growing risk of hunger, and food banks are experiencing overwhelming demand they cannot meet on their own.

Metro United Way launched of the “Hardship to Hope Food Relief Fund” that will pay Kroger gift cards of varying amounts directly to SNAP recipients that have at least one child under 18 in the home or an elderly individual.