The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides food benefits to low-income families to help supplement their grocery budget.

On Saturday, November 1st, approximately half a million Nevadans who receive food aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – or SNAP – will not get their benefits. That means a loss of roughly 90 million dollars in federal funding for food assistance.

Top Nevada lawmaker asks for fiscal emergency to fund SNAP ‘by any means necessary.’ Read more from The Nevada Independent.

As the federal shutdown continues, Nevada officials are rolling out a large-scale plan to make sure no family goes hungry.Governor Joe Lombardo’s office release

Nevada approves $30 million in emergency funding for food banks serving 500,000 residents facing SNAP benefit suspension during government shutdown.

Vegas Helps, a local non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Las Vegas families in need, created VegasFoodBoxes, which will provide $10,000 worth of emergency pre-packaged food boxes on

Democratic U.S. Rep. Susie Lee on Tuesday criticized Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo for not doing more to provide substitute benefits to the hundreds of thousands of Nevadans who are supposed to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits next month but who won’t because of the government shutdown.

Nevada joins states in lawsuit to keep SNAP funding. Meanwhile, the Fed eyes a 0.25% rate cut amid layoffs, and the Toronto Blue Jays tie the World Series 6-2 after an 18-inning Game 3 against the Los Angeles Dodgers.