A $900 million emergency plan to continue food assistance for roughly 1.4 million Michiganders is being proposed by state House Democrats.

Those residents, who include nearly 492,000 children in the state, are slated to be cut off from Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in November as the federal government shutdown continues.

SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, provides food assistance to those who are lower-income. Nearly 13% of Michigan households rely on SNAP to buy groceries.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week notified Michigan and other states that benefits from SNAP will be paused for the month of November . Rather than directing states to issue partial benefit payments, the federal government told Michigan to “hold November SNAP issuance.”

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