Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Emergency Allotments (EAs), which have been issued since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic to address food insecurity challenges, will end in Illinois after February, when the federal increases expire. This change will impact over one million households and two million people in Illinois.
The benefit amount participants will receive starting in March will be noted in a client letter sent to all SNAP recipient households.
The Illinois Department of Human Services seeks to prepare SNAP Participants for U.S. Department of Agriculture’s return of SNAP benefits to the pre- pandemic levels. Grocery and pharmacy retailers can assist in the effort by posting SNAP Reduction Customer Notice posters in their stores.
Also in Illinois, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services will review the following classes at the Drugs &Therapeutics Advisory Board meeting on April 6: CGRP migraine agents, Oral Antipsychotic (class clean-up). All clinical and financial submissions are due to the Department by 3:00 p.m. CST on March 16. Submissions should be sent to: HFS.SupplementalRebaleProgram@illinois.gov. For more information, please visit here.
For more information, contact NACDS’ Leigh Knotts at 803-243-7207.