SNAP funding

Amid the second-longest U.S. government shutdown on record, The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a note saying SNAP benefits won’t go out Nov. 1, according to the Associated Press .

SNAP is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps.

If that holds, it could affect some 752,000 Alabamians -- or the 15 percent of us who are on the SNAP program.

AL.com’s Savannah Tryens-Fernandes reported that neither the state’s Department of Human Resources nor the governor’s office responded to questions late last week regarding the state’s plans and expectations. But Feeding Alabama, a coalition of food banks, said it has communicated with DHR and “our understanding is that they are waiting for final guidance from USDA before they release any

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