SNAP benefits were poised to be halted on Saturday, prompting an executive order from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Nearly 2 million Illinois residents depend on SNAP to help pay for groceries. As the government shutdown continues, they’re scrambling to find other ways to feed their families.

Food assistance advocates and state officials acknowledged that the state funds to food banks would not be enough to fill the gap left by shutting off federal funds. Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton called the funding “a drop in the bucket” at a news conference Thursday morning.

Nearly 2 million people in Illinois may lose food assistance starting Saturday because of the government shutdown. The state and food pantries say they can’t match the $350 million that SNAP provides each month.

Raoul joins SNAP benefits lawsuit Attorney General Kwame Raoul today joined a coalition of 26 attorneys general and governors in filing a lawsuit against the U. S.

We relied on SNAP and lived in a homeless shelter in Washington State when she was an infant. My daughter took her first steps there, in the 90 days we called the shelter home. Our lives were ones of constant relocation.

Millions of New Yorkers are hoping they will still be able to eat after Saturday, when federal funding for SNAP is set to run out amid the month-long government shutdown. A federal judge’s ruling could press Washington to take emergency measures to feed those in need.

Grocers are bracing for the impending exhaustion of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits on November 1 as the government shutdown precludes the Department of Agriculture from distributing funds to be allocated to 42 million recipients “The well has run dry,