SNAP provides food benefits for more than 40 million Americans, including more than a million children, families, seniors, and disabled adults in Georgia. Advocates warn that if the shutdown continues, food banks and community pantries will be pushed to the breaking point.

The USDA has announced that SNAP benefits will not be issued Nov. 1. How many Georgians will be affected? What to know.

Food pantries in Georgia are bracing for impacts as benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, won’t be renewed in November.

Georgia Democrats are urging Gov. Kemp to use part of the state’s $14.6 billion surplus to prevent the cutoff.

Georgia’s SNAP administrators say they would need more than $60 million from state coffers to maintain their level of staffing after next year’s federal cuts to the program that more than one in 10 Georgians use for groceries.

Newly released internal DHS tallies show 2,207 case escalations last week alone — most flooding the state's call center — with more than a third repeat complaints amid ongoing SNAP delays.

Georgia DHS says SNAP food benefits for more than 687,000 households will end November 1 if the federal government shutdown continues. Families are urged to plan ahead and use remaining funds now.

The article details the training of new ICE agents and the impact of a government shutdown on SNAP benefit funding in Georgia.