South Dakota will distribute some Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to eligible recipients after plans to fully pay out the food-aid funds were paused.

The state Department of Social Services announced in a Nov. 11 press release it had finished processing partial benefits for the roughly 37,000 households that use SNAP and would deposit the funds into cardholders' EBT accounts "overnight."

The state department added it plans to issue the rest of the funds for November "when the federal shutdown ends and all benefits are restored."

"The partial benefit amounts are based on guidance from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) received on Nov. 8," the department's press release reads. "This does not change how each of the 37,000 eli

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