Nonprofit food program in Md. worries about growing need as government shutdown continues

Every month, more than 680,000 Marylanders, including 270,000 children, receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits.

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As the government shutdown wears on, those benefits, roughly $180 a month, have an expiration date.

“If the shutdown does not end by the end of this month and the Trump Administration does not act to tap into existing contingency funding as required by law, benefits will be paused starting November 1st. This means new SNAP benefits will no longer be deposited on EBT cards for cus