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What are SNAP benefits and what happens during a shutdown? SNAP helps 41.7M Americans afford food, but a shutdown could halt benefits starting November 1. At a Des Moines, Iowa, food bank, clients who used to come occasionally are now regulars. The number of visitors has steadily risen in the last two years, as COVID-19 pandemic relief programs ended, said Andrea Cook, executive director of the Johnston Partnership, which runs the food bank. And now, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP benefits aren t expected to arrive in full in November because of the government shutdown. The shortfall will leaving 42 million people scrambling to find food, and food banks like Cook s...

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