The USDA said it would provide partial food stamp benefits for November, but it's unclear exactly when participants will get those funds.

The move to partially fund SNAP could delay benefits as states calculate and distribute the food subsidies, and the smaller payment may only grant recipients days or weeks before they face the threat of going without food anew, experts told ABC News.

SNAP, often called food stamps, is the nation's largest food aid program, providing monthly benefits to low-income Americans so they can access healthy food and essentials. The SNAP cut this weekend would impact more than 42 million Americans who relied on ...

Trump could bail it out during the shutdown using contingency funds, but he’s decided those funds are for an emergency, and the inability of some 40 million Americans to get the food they’re used to is not an emergency to him. An emergency would be if there was a national shortage of gilded toilets.

Some 42 million people will miss food assistance payments this weekend due to the Democratic Party‘s federal government shutdown. There is no reason for this to happen. Senate Republicans have voted to prevent it more than a dozen times.