As the federal government shutdown drags on, 360,000 Connecticut residents face the growing fear that they won’t receive SNAP benefits on Nov. 1.

“I try not to overstate things, but it will really be catastrophic,” Ben Dubow, executive director of Forge City Works, said.

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The organization runs Grocery on Broad , a nonprofit store providing food for the Frog Hollow section of Hartford.

Dubow estimates that more than half the store’s customers receive SNAP.

So he, and other grocery store owners, are facing another reality – SNAP benefits have broad economic impacts and customers who lose that aid can’t spend it in their stores.

Gov. Ned Lamont (D-Connecticut) said his primary focus is on helping people get food, b

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