Michigan households that receive federal food assistance will start seeing half of their benefits this weekend amid the federal government shutdown.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday, Nov. 5, that households will begin getting partial payments starting Saturday, Nov. 8. This is in response to the federal government reducing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to about 50% of recipients' payments for November during the shutdown.

Food assistance benefits are typically loaded onto Bridge cards on staggered dates. Households that get their benefits on the third, fifth or seventh of the month are expected to get partial SNAP dollars on Saturday, according to an MDHHS news release. All other recipients will get their reduced benefi

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