Loudoun Supervisors Hear Report on End of COVID-era Benefits

BY RENSS GREENE rgreene@loudounnow.com

County human services department heads briefed supervisors Tuesday, May 16 on the end of expanded COVID-19-era safety net programs like public assistance for the hungry and Medicaid coverage.

During the national state of emergency declared due to the pandemic, health and human services programs were expanded to offer more benefits to more people, such as simplifying and expanding eligibility and increasing benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Although many people are still feeling the effects of the pandemic’s disruptions in their own lives, those programs have been cut back down, and Loudoun Department of Family Services staff are now working to reevaluate ev-