SPARTANBURG, S.C. —

Nonprofits and farmers markets across South Carolina are having to implement creative strategies to support families facing food insecurity as uncertainty surrounds SNAP benefits.

"A lot of people have spent all their benefits," Terri Smith with Ruth's Gleanings explained. "And a lot of people have a little bit. They're going to try to stretch over this period that we don't know how long it's going to be."

More than 556,000 people in South Carolina rely on SNAP benefits, and Jenni Callahan, the Hub City Farmer's Market manager, was one of them.

"People have to be very, very careful about where they spend their money," she said.

Callahan and Megan Jarrett with PAL, a nonprofit in Spartanburg, acknowledge that pantries were never meant to be the sole defense agai

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