OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. (KOKH) — President Trump signed the 'Big, Beautiful Bill', on July 4.

The bill made changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which about 700,000 Oklahomans rely on according to Hunger Free Oklahoma.

"The ones that directly impact people the soonest are the changes in time limit and paperwork requirements for people to prove that they are working or volunteering or something else," said Chris Bernard, Hunger Free Oklahoma President and CEO. "They have added whole new categories of people that were never subject to these paperwork requirements and time limits before."

Hunger Free Oklahoma partners with government agencies, nonprofits and others to help connect people to food resources.

"Short-term what you're gonna see is all the folks who have lost benefits are gonna lean on the charitable system, which is already overloaded and has higher demand than ever before. So our food bank partners, our pantry partners are gonna get hit harder. Schools are gonna see more families struggling," Bernard said.

Bernard told FOX 25 states will now have to share the cost of the SNAP program with the federal government if the state has an error rate over a certain percentage.

"It's basically paperwork mistakes in the amount people receive in benefits, both over and under. So maybe instead of getting $240, a household gets $260. That's an error," Bernard explained. "For Oklahoma and our current error rate in about two and a half years, we will be expected to pay $270 million in SNAP benefits. Like that will be our percentage portions."

The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma has already seen a rise in the number of people needing assistance in the past couple of years, and that number could increase when some no longer qualify for SNAP benefits.

"We expect that to increase. We have a wonderful partnership with the Department of Human Services. So they know to refer people to our partner agency network when they need food and so there will be more of that," said Stacy Dykstra, CEO of Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

Dykstra told FOX 25 the loss from SNAP changes are equivalent to about 140 million meals for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

"From all different angles more people will be coming to our partner network to look for resources and that's a really scary feeling for all of us," Dykstra said. "I mean we're gonna stick together and we're gonna figure it out but so we're actively looking for ways to source more food and to make sure that our partners have what they need to fulfill the increased need that they see."

The funding cuts for SNAP detailed in the bill are expected to happen over the next decade.