{"id":753636,"date":"2025-12-10T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/?p=753636"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:16:00","slug":"federal-benefit-cuts-push-oklahoma-families-into-eviction-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/10\/federal-benefit-cuts-push-oklahoma-families-into-eviction-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Benefit Cuts Push Oklahoma Families Into Eviction Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_WKBBEiw3O6K?client=wp&amp;client_version=2.6.0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It was the cuts to federal child care subsidies that landed Eboney Mitchell in eviction court.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell said having daycare for her two children allowed her to work and keep up with her monthly rent. Her rent was $1,300 a month, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen they cut day care off,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitchell had to take time off to care for her two children while she scrambled to make other arrangements. She lost her job. She got behind on her rent. Eventually, she found two part-time jobs to replace the one she lost. She got the money, but the property company told her it was too late.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting outside the Oklahoma County\u2019s eviction courtroom, she paged through the fees stacked on by her landlord. Quickly, her $1,300 rent ballooned up to more than $3,000 as her landlord tacked on charge after charge, including late fees, attorney\u2019s fees, and $200 for an unapproved pet charge for her son\u2019s service animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy son is autistic,\u201d she said. \u201cI have the paperwork for that dog.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-newspack-blocks-homepage-articles is-style-borders wpnbha show-image image-alignright ts-4 is-1 is-landscape is-style-borders\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div data-posts data-current-post-id=\"746753\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-section-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>the latest<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<article data-post-id=\"754196\" class=\"tag-attorney-general tag-cdc tag-covid-19 tag-george-monks tag-measles tag-oklahoma-news tag-oklahoma-state-department-of-health tag-oklahoma-state-medical-association tag-whooping-cough category-health category-publichealth type-post post-has-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2026\/01\/05\/oklahoma-health-department-refuses-to-share-county-level-measles-data\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-newspack-article-block-landscape-large size-newspack-article-block-landscape-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data\" data-hero-candidate=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=600%2C450&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Monks_15-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 782px) 600px, (min-width: 600px) 42.5vw, 90vw\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><!-- .featured-image -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2026\/01\/05\/oklahoma-health-department-refuses-to-share-county-level-measles-data\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oklahoma Health Department Refuses to Share County-Level Measles Data<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/paulmonies\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cropped-Paul-Monies.jpg?resize=48%2C48&amp;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/cropped-Paul-Monies-96x96.jpg 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-48 photo\" height=\"48\" width=\"48\"><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"author-prefix\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/author\/paulmonies\/\">Paul Monies<\/a><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><!-- .author-name -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-01-05T06:01:00-06:00\">January 5, 2026<\/time><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2026-01-05T11:05:42-06:00\">January 5, 2026<\/time>\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><!-- .entry-wrapper -->\n\t<\/article>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>Mitchell isn\u2019t alone. The recent government shutdown, which included would-be cuts to the federal child care subsidies, Head Start and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, along with furloughs, has created such crises throughout Oklahoma among low and middle-income families.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahoma.gov\/okdhs\/shutdown.html#:~:text=Child%20Care%20Subsidy,payments%20by%20%245%20per%20day.\">According to the FAQ on the Oklahoma State Department of Human Services website<\/a>, SNAP benefits returned to normal Nov. 13, but many child care subsidies for school-age children will not, due to federal budget cuts enacted during the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe federal government shutdown has paused funding for many programs nationwide, including child care assistance,\u201d\u00a0 the announcement states. \u201cBecause nearly 75% of Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) funding comes from federal sources, we must adjust the Child Care Subsidy program to preserve available resources for as long as possible. The change takes effect on November 1, 2025. Eligibility for children 6 years of age and older who do not fit within one of the exceptions will be closed or removed at the next renewal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are other cuts. SNAP, once known as Food Stamps, is a subsidy that provides money to the needy to buy food. In Oklahoma, the more than 600,000 who receive SNAP benefits were told theirs would be cut by about 35%. That would mean a family of four, expecting to receive $994 for food, would instead receive $646, a loss of $347 to the household budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For families already struggling to keep up with rising rent costs, that is enough to push them over the edge, said Brad Senters, the director of eviction prevention for Shelterwell, a housing advocacy group in Oklahoma. Senters regularly acts as a mediator in eviction hearings in Oklahoma County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u200aIf you\u2019re in eviction court, it\u2019s probably not the only adversity you\u2019re first facing that week,\u201d Senters said. \u201cEspecially if you\u2019re on a really tight budget, $50 can mean a lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senters said that a $50 shortfall \u2014 or more, in the case of a larger family \u2014 means $50 that was supposed to go toward rent is instead spent on food for the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senters said the political wrangling that led to the government shutdown has real effects on people at the street level, often with very hard outcomes for those struggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u200aOne bill comes out of nowhere and it\u2019s a snowball effect of just destroying a budget that\u2019s already really tight anyway,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cI honestly don\u2019t come across a lot of tenants that are getting their hair done or who are buying cars. I know a lot of people want to think that that\u2019s what it is, but I just don\u2019t see it. It\u2019s people struggling, doing their best to get by. And, you know, one hiccup can lose your house.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Nov. 13, the federal government announced a return to the full, pre-shutdown SNAP amounts, but that means the hiccup happened for thousands of families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While November saw partial payments of approximately 65 percent of the full amount for SNAP normally sent to needy families, such projections may not have panned out equally to his clients, Senters said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven that first payment they got back was partial,\u201d he said. \u201cI talked to somebody who was normally getting a couple hundred bucks and their first payment back was, like, 25 bucks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senters said other cuts have had as bad, or worse, effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThen there was a furloughed worker I had a mediation with a few weeks ago,\u201d Senters said. \u201cLuckily, the landlord was willing to work with her because of that. They didn\u2019t have to, but she was still working, but not getting paid. Hopefully, that kind of catches back up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Landlord\u2019s Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a recent, packed eviction hearing in the Oklahoma County Courthouse, property manager Trey Parker stood before Oklahoma County Special Judge Trent Pipes to cite evictions he filed, referring to them from a sheaf of paperwork in his hands. In a number of them, Parker only named \u201coccupants\u201d of a given address.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pipes smiled slightly at Parker.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re suing for rent?\u201d he asked Parker.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parker smiled and nodded.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u200aI\u2019d like to talk to you about all these cases where you just list \u2018occupants,\u2019\u201d Pipes said. \u201cI\u2019ve got questions. If you don\u2019t name a person, how do you get a judgment against them for jurisdiction? \u200aI know it\u2019s a technical question that lawyers and judges worry about. But it\u2019s never done anything to slow you down, right?\u201d<br><br>\u201cRight,\u201d Parker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the judge returned to calling the docket, which included about 200 cases that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside the courtroom, Parker admitted to intentionally leaving some occupants\u2019 names off the filings. He only wanted to get his renters\u2019 attention, he said. He said he didn\u2019t want it to go on their permanent record. Renters who are defendants in an eviction filing find it very difficult to arrange for another place to live because many landlords will not rent to someone with an eviction record. Parker said that cutting them a break by not including their names will help them out down the line, but it also means he has no recourse if they don\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cNo one wants to file an eviction.\u201d<\/p><cite>Trey Parker<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTypically, we always try to strike a deal,\u201d Parker said. \u201cNo one wants to file an eviction. \u200aIdeally, a contract is a contract, you know. Rent is due on the first and late on the fifth, and that\u2019s how that goes. And then some people fall short. Some people are habitually short, and then some people just hit hard times.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that some of his renters were coming up short because the cut in SNAP benefits was forcing them to choose between rent or food for their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indicating the papers in his hands, he said he had to file 45 eviction notices in court that day. While a few did have the names of the renters on them, many didn\u2019t. He said he would be able to make a deal with most of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis month\u2019s a little more than usual just because of the holiday,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m certain it\u2019s also because of the food stamps.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SNAP Cuts Are Only the Beginning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2025\/12\/03\/snap-cuts-contributed-to-evictions-across-oklahoma\/\">A recent Oklahoma Watch story<\/a> profiled a family with limited income who fell short of SNAP benefits and had to pay out of pocket for food, leaving them unable to pay their rent. They faced almost immediate eviction.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/mhaok.org\/2025\/12\/04\/new-data-shows-government-shutdown-and-snap-loss-drove-evictions-in-oklahoma-county\/\">survey published last week<\/a> by Mental Health Association Oklahoma showed how severe the problem is shaping up to be. According to the account published on its website, between November 12-26, the association, along with support from Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, surveyed 79 households facing eviction in Oklahoma County. The survey found that 57% had SNAP benefits but lost access to them on Nov. 1, and that 73% believed the loss of SNAP benefits directly contributed to their eviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe shutdown\u2019s ripple effects did not stop there,\u201d the survey stated. \u201cTwenty-four percent of all surveyed households lost a job, hours, or pay because of the government shutdown. And 84% of those households told us that the unexpected loss of income directly led to their eviction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey concluded that stability for many Oklahomans is fragile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u200aI think that the fact that so many of them had not experienced an eviction prior to this really reinforces that it was the loss of SNAP benefits that led to this particular eviction,\u201d said Amy Coldren, the director of advocacy and communication for Mental Health Association Oklahoma. \u201cSo these are not families that are routinely falling behind on rent that are often finding themselves in eviction court. These are families that were getting by. They may have been barely getting by, but they were getting by. They were able to pay their rent, they were able to stay housed. And then this particular event, this loss of SNAP benefits or this loss of wages or hours, it really did send them into a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The benefit cuts are falling disproportionately on single mothers and their children, on the disabled, and on the elderly, to whom even a $100 shortfall can lead to an eviction. Coldren said one of the survey respondents was an elderly disabled woman whose disability payments were approximately $900 a month, and the SNAP benefits were her lifeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat leaves her with this tiny margin, and she loses snap benefits,\u201d Coldren said. \u201cIf you only have less than $200 of disposable income, it\u2019s not actually disposable because she\u2019s having to use that for her utilities, for any medications that she might be on, any other expenses, all has to come out of that. A hundred dollars? She doesn\u2019t have anything extra. There\u2019s no extra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabine Brown, the housing policy analyst at the Oklahoma Policy Institute in Tulsa, said many Oklahoma renters were facing hardship before the cuts started.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u200aOklahoma renters were already struggling to make ends meet,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThey were not in a position to absorb any lost income subsidies or childcare. Half of Oklahoma renters earn less than the annual income needed, which is nearly $44,000 per year to afford a two-bedroom rental.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With many cuts set to continue or worsen with the coming year, as well as another possible government shutdown in January, the problem is about to get worse, Brown said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u200aMore than seven out of 10 extremely low-income families who rent in Oklahoma are severely cost burdened,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThat means that they\u2019re spending more than 50% of their income on rent. For those families, one emergency, like a missed SNAP payment, missed wages, or missed childcare, can lead to missed rent and put them at really high risk, for eviction, housing instability, or even homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown said the convergence of cuts are combining into a maelstrom of effects that will sweep over many Oklahoma families as the winter sets in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200a\u201cAll these things are happening at the same time,\u201d she said, \u201cThat is going to put a lot of people in the position of having to choose between food, medical care or rent. If we continue down this road, we\u2019re going to see rising evictions and homelessness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When and if such cuts start hitting in the coming months, don\u2019t expect that the state\u2019s food pantries, homeless shelters, and other aid organizations can keep the blow from landing, Brown said. They are already overstretched.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe direct service providers of homeless shelters are doing as much as they can,\u201d Brown said. \u201cBut they are at capacity. We can\u2019t continue to rely on nonprofits to pick up the slack when we make these massive cuts. \u200aWe\u2019re going to need to find solutions beyond continuing to put more and more on our nonprofit community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Fenwick.jpg?resize=192%2C192&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-752236\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:219px;height:219px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Fenwick.jpg?w=192&amp;ssl=1 192w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Fenwick.jpg?resize=140%2C140&amp;ssl=1 140w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Fenwick.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Fenwick.jpg?w=370&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oklahomawatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ben-Fenwick.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Ben Fenwick is a Norman-based journalist and contributor to Oklahoma Watch<\/em>. <em>Contact him at <a 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