The Utah Food Bank is working to bring in more donations and push them out to its network of pantries around the state, anticipating a jump in demand when about 87,000 Utah households go without food assistance next month.

Meeting the need won’t be easy, said Ginette Bott, the food bank’s president and CEO. She and her employees were hammering out the logistics Thursday of how to ramp up their work with their existing staff and fleet of trucks.

“We can ask for more donations of food, but we have no guarantee those donations will come,” Bott added.

Utah’s Department of Workforce Services, which manages the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program , or SNAP, in the state announced Wednesday that November payments will not be made because of the government shutdown.

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