Delays, smaller payments: How SNAP funding will work

The Trump administration said Monday it would provide partial payments to about 42 million food stamp recipients in November, though the White House warned the funds could take as long as months to reach households. The move promised some eventual relief as the government shutdown nears a record for the longest impasse in the nation’s history. The Trump administration, however, declined to use alternate funding that would have enabled the delivery of full SNAP benefits this month. The move to partially fund SNAP could delay benefits as states calculate and distribute the food subsidies, and the smaller payment may only grant recipients days or weeks before they face the threat of going without food anew, experts told ABC News. “The stress that families are facing throughout the country is