Michigan House Democrats want to create a $900 million emergency fund to pay SNAP benefits for 1.4 million people across the state in November.

At 1 a.m. Thursday morning, Symone Wilkes, a Detroit resident and mother of two young sons, received a loud alert on her phone. It was her MI Bridges app — the site through which state benefits are provided — alerting her that her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says it was instructed to hold November SNAP payments "due to the ongoing federal government funding lapse."

More than 1.4 million Michiganders could lose access to food assistance next week as the federal government shutdown forces a pause in SNAP benefits.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 22 other state attorneys general in sending a letter on Friday to Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins pressing for answers on the lapse in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,

Michigan could have spared a lot of stress for the roughly 1.4 million Michiganders who receive SNAP benefits, if not for wasteful spending in past years, says the Speaker of the state House.

Michigan's Double Up Food Bucks program extends the purchase power for food stamp recipients at participating retailers.

Across Massachusetts food aid organizations and public officials are preparing for the end of SNAP benefits due to the ongoing government shutdown -- readying for over 1.1 million recipients in the state to lose access to the food security funding on Nov.