The continuation of the government shutdown threatens access to federal food assistance programs for millions of Americans.

New Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rules are going into effect on Saturday, even as benefits will already not be issued through November without federal funding due to the government shutdown.

The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program will run out of money on Saturday. Some governors are shifting state money to cover part of the shortfall, bolster food pantries or both.

More than 750,000 Alabamians will lose food assistance in November as federal shutdown continues, but local organizations are stepping up to help.

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One out of eight households in the United States receives SNAP benefits. Starting Saturday, those benefits will come to a halt.The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on its website that no benefits will be issued as of Nov.

The federal government shutdown is threatening to suspend these SNAP benefits, after the US Department of Agriculture last week, in a message on its website, that payments would not be issued on Nov.

The Trump administration has cut the number of refugees it will admit into the country to 7,500.