It was not surprising to me that as a date specific loomed for food benefits to be shut off, suddenly people and their children are "starving" and collecting donations. I saw one post about how someone said "I needed milk bread flour sugar salt tea coffee meat & veg and the food pantry gave me 3 cans of green beans my children are crying" First of all, if you need to get flour, sugar, salt, tea and coffee all at once, you're either complete shit at managing your own situation or you are making that up. No one needs those things all at once at the same time and your kids aren't crying about tea and coffee and salt. Or supposedly that one woman in a food pantry line who said she didn't believe in handouts but "wanted to see what they have" ... Americans are the kings at bragging about getting free stuff, especially when they feel it makes them "smarter" or "faster" than someone else. I have a SIL like this. I've had it said to me more than once by different people in town that whenever something "free" comes up on FB they always see that she was the one who was first to respond and the item is taken. I had another neighbor tell me she was in a pizza place arguing with them about a $1 chicken topping because it wasn't "listed" in their menu. She left without the pizza. She's not poor by any stretch, all their kids private school tuition is paid by my in-laws. They have a vacation home and a boat. She drives a mercedes. They own their own home - given to them by my in-laws. they are all Trump voters. To the OP, I'm really sorry to see good efforts being taken advantage of, but again, not surprised.