As the likelihood of going without SNAP benefits rises, people who depend on them are trying to figure out how to pay for food and other bills.

"I think it's absolutely horrific what they're doing. People with disabilities. Older Coloradoans. Those are the people they're hitting," said 66-year-old Francesca Maes. Maes deals with a long list of difficult health issues, from non-alcoholic liver disease and diabetes to lifelong struggles with issues like mental health and mobility.

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"They mean my sustainability to function through life," said Maes of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, known as SNAP.

She lives in a home in Thornton that her mother left her. She is always scraping by. Social Security disability payments total about $800 a month. Francesca's brother hel

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