With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history now over, officials are working to fully reopen the government and all that makes it flow. Part of getting it back up and running includes delivering Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to individuals who missed all or part of their regular monthly payments.

Mississippi was one of many states on Thursday, less than a day after Congress voted on and President Donald Trump signed a bill to fund the government, to announce it’s working quickly to deliver food assistance to beneficiaries. The Mississippi Department of Human Services, which announced a temporary pause on SNAP benefits last month before saying Monday that up to 65% of benefits would be delivered, stated it “will issue full November SNAP benefits as soon as poss

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