South Carolina will not begin restricting what SNAP recipients can buy on Monday as planned. In a memo dated August 25, the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked the state to push its Healthy Food SC project back to November 1, WIS News 10 reported. The restrictions were scheduled to take effect on August 31.
For the more than 235,000 South Carolina households that use SNAP, representing nearly 482,000 people, the practical effect is two extra months of unchanged grocery rules. Candy, energy drinks, soft drinks and other sweetened beverages remain eligible purchases through the end of October.
