South Carolina Public Radio
Harvest Hope is South Carolina’s largest food bank and works across 20 counties in the Midlands, Pee Dee and the Upstate. CEO Erinn Rowe said the timeliness of the announcements gave too short of a turnaround, especially for people who cannot immediately find a job to supplement the loss of benefits. “My mother-in-law — she’s qualified for SNAP. She can’t go a get a job by next week to make up for it, and that’s a lot of the way she’s feeding herself,” Rowe said. The state reported 127,907, or 22.8%, of SNAP recipients as of September 2025 were older than 51 years old.