The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more commonly known as SNAP, or food stamps — is a key benefits program that serves more than 40 million people across the country. Now, the shutdown is threatening to suspend benefits, raising concerns over where millions of people who rely on the program will turn to for food.

In Pennsylvania, SNAP provides more than $366 million in benefits to about two million families, including 713,000 children.

More than 800,000 people in New Jersey rely on SNAP, including many children, seniors and people with disabilities.

More than 1.6 million people in the D.C. area rely on SNAP benefits. Beginning Nov. 1, those federal benefits will stop being distributed until the government reopens.

South Dakota's Democrats want Gov. Larry Rhoden to take a stand on the looming lapse in hunger-relief benefits in the state.

Iowa anti-hunger advocates said rulings by two federal judges that order the Trump administration to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program using contingency funds during the government shutdown offer some hope,

More than a million Massachusetts residents will be without food benefits, according to Gov. Maura Healey. However, SNAP benefits typically roll over month to month, allowing a recipient to spend any unused money on their EBT card up to 274 days after it was issued,

The continuing federal government shutdown is about to hit hard for those who depend on SNAP, the benefits formerly known as food stamps. Unless the federal government shutdown is ended, benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will end Nov.