More than 1 million people in Massachusetts are at risk of not receiving federal food aid starting Nov. 1.

With the federal government still shut down, funds for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) assistance are set to dry up at the beginning of the month.

SNAP is a federal program that provides benefits to low-income households to help buy groceries.

The Trump administration announced it would not tap the roughly $5 million in contingency funds to keep benefits active in November, the Associated Press reported.

If the government shutdown isn’t resolved before midnight, Nov. 1, millions of Americans could see SNAP benefits end.

As of September, there are 1,061,460 individuals in Massachusetts who receive SNAP benefits, according to data from the state’s Department of Tra

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