“I hear about it every day,” Haynes said of SNAP benefits being delayed, “I'll hear about it again today at work, and I tell them I'm in the same boat. He said he tells people he’s also wondering about the future of his own benefits. ‘Well, you're employed.' Yeah, barely, but I'm still broke.’”

The notice said “due to the ongoing federal government funding lapse, there may be limited availability of funds” to pay full SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans. But instead of directing states to issue partial benefits, the federal government told Michigan to “hold November SNAP issuance.”

MARIETTA – Hunger Solutions Mid-Ohio Valley is providing up to $100,000 to support the Southeast Ohio Food Bank after Food and Nutrition Services announced on Wednesday it had run out of funds. Food and Nutrition Services is a division of the U.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is pausing food assistance benefits in November until further notice.

The federal government shutdown has stretched on for more than three weeks, with Congress still failing to pass a funding bill.

New Jersey is warning some 800,000 residents who receive food assistance that their benefits could expire beginning in November.