Families lost weeks of food they couldn’t afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.

By: Jessica Kutz

Outlets: Indiana Capital Chronicle

Published: September 8, 2026

Words: 1,834

Last Updated: 5 days, 22 hours ago

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When a powerful storm tore through Gary, Indiana, knocking out the power for two weeks, Tiffany Harrison, a mother of three, had to throw out all of the food that had spoiled in her fridge and deep freezer.

It was a big hit to her family in this majority-Black city where roughly 2 in 5 people rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, to feed themselves, according to an …

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