Alabama SNAP benefits will not go out on Nov 1, leaving thousands at risk. How many will be affected? Here's what to know.

The hearing comes after the coalition that successfully sued the Trump administration over its decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the federal government shutdown requested a federal judge to release a new order on funding the program in response to the USDA’s delay in releasing payments.

Alabama congresswoman Terri Sewell talked about that very thing during her visit to Temporary Emergency Services (TES) in Tuscaloosa. Congresswoman Sewell toured TES because it’s become the go-to place recently for SNAP recipients whose benefits have been suspended because of the federal closure.

Americans uses the SNAP program to buy groceries, but this week, according to *** memo put out by the Department of Agriculture, Federal food aid will not go out beginning November 1st. *** post on their website reads the well has run dry and blamed Senate Democrats for demanding health care concessions amid the now nearly month-long government shutdown.

If SNAP, the federal food stamps program, is suspended in November, about 750,000 people in Alabama are expected to need help finding food. A judge ruled Oct. 31 that the federal government should fund the program, but it is unclear whether November benefits might arrive on time -- or at all.

Looming cuts to SNAP funding have been closely watched in Alabama and across the United States. The Monday announcement that partial funding for the food assistance program will be provided for

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Thousands of Alabama families could find themselves without help to buy groceries next month if the federal government shutdown drags on. While several states have announced temporary pauses or contingency plans for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing is donating $50,000 to the Food Bank of North Alabama to help in response to the federal government shutdown and the delay of SNAP benefits.