SNAP funding is set to lapse Nov. 1, leaving recipients empty-handed. Here's what experts say.

With food-stamp funding set to lapse Saturday, recipients are asking what happens to their benefits — and when help might resume.

Charts illustrate the scale of SNAP as millions face potential benefit lapse

Government shutdown threatens SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans as funding expires Saturday, leaving low-income families without food assistance.

SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries

Long lines have formed at food pantries across the U.S. as federal food benefits were cut off due to the government shutdown

Analysis: SNAP cuts expose Trump strategy to use shutdown for agenda

It's a shutdown unlike any other, one that has posed disparate and debilitating risks for those unlucky enough to depend on the many functions of government that Trump has long aspired to cut.

Trump hosted 'Great Gatsby' Halloween party hours before SNAP funding lapsed

President Donald Trump has come under fire after he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed Halloween party just hours before millions of Americans lost their SNAP benefits.

With SNAP benefits in limbo, South Philadelphia Community Fridge in need of donations

The South Philadelphia Community Fridge has seven locations and has become a big help for people who use SNAP benefits.

'This is about people': GOP Mayor blasts Congress for denying SNAP benefits during shutdown

President Trump suggested he would provide funding for SNAP benefits – if he gets clarification from the judge who ordered his administration to use contingency funds to pay for the program. Democratic Mayor of Allentown,

42M lose SNAP benefits despite efforts to fund the food program

Some 42 million recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will have to wait for them to be restored after losing them on Saturday.
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