State to provide additional food assistance benefits
State to provide additional food assistance benefits From Staff Reports FacebookTwitterEmail BENZIE COUNTY — Roughly 350,000 Michigan families will continue to have access to additional food assistance benefits during February as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced. Michigan previously approved the additional food assistance beginning in March 2020 — and now that is being extended for February 2021 with approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. “As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact...