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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey released $2 million in state emergency funds for eight food banks.

The funding addresses a pause in SNAP benefits caused by a federal government shutdown.

About 750,000 Alabamians, including over 300,000 children, rely on the SNAP program.

Gov. Kay Ivey has released $2 million of the state’s emergency funds to go toward eight food banks , serving all of Alabama’s 67 counties.

This comes on the fourth day of November, which is the first day some of the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients will miss an issuance of those benefits to their Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, Ivey's office said. In Alabama, SNAP benefits are issued to recipients' cards on a specific day from the fourth of the month to the 23 rd

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