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Speaker 1: For twenty years, the Very Ellen Bread Food Pantry in

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Speaker 1: Dorchester has distributed critically needed groceries to hundreds of families,

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Speaker 1: many of them recipients of SNAP benefits. Jim Brett, who's

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Speaker 1: late mother founded the food pantry, says the families who

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Speaker 1: Snap benefits are frozen due to the political stalemate in

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Speaker 1: Washington now face a dire need.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're a supplement for many of the neighbors here

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Speaker 2: who say, look, I can't get by with what I'm

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Speaker 2: given in food stamps on the SNAP. I need that

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Speaker 2: extra bag of groceries that you provide here each and

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Speaker 2: every week.

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Speaker 1: The crisis that sending needy SNAP families to food pantries

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Speaker 1: like this one comes just as the pantries are gearing

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Speaker 1: up for Thanksgiving, when needy families will be thankful there's

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Speaker 1: a place like this to turn to.

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Speaker 2: If we weren't here, I don't know where they would go.

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Speaker 2: We don't turn anyone away in Dorchester. Mike Macklin WBZ,

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Speaker 2: Boston's news radio