SNAP benefits remain in limbo during the government shutdown amid ongoing legal challenges from the Trump administration.It’s left some 65,000 Vermonters wondering whether will have money to put food on the table.

Retailers are bracing for SNAP disruptions as billions of dollars that would normally flow to grocers and local communities are delayed.

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Grocers who rely on sales from customers using federal food assistance are bracing for financial pain that could amount to millions of dollars in losses. Nationwide, the Supplemental Nutrition Assista

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income households afford food, with recipients using benefits at many food retailers ... participate in SNAP. Store types include superstores like Walmart and Costco, supermarkets like Safeway ...

Has a New Jersey supermarket shuttered its windows ever since Nov. 1, 2025 when SNAP payments were cut off? No, that's not true: The store had not, at the time this was written, closed because of a delay in

(CN) — A federal appeals court has sided with a group of Rhode Island churches and nonprofits in ruling that the Trump administration can be forced to pay full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history looks poised to end.

Trump prompted further concern when he threatened to withhold SNAP benefits until the end of the government shutdown.

For some grocery stores in the urban core, up to 60% of their business comes from shoppers using federal food benefits. A SNAP shutdown just before Thanksgiving and Christmas could be particularly bad for businesses.

At the beginning of November, SNAP benefits will run out, and Tennessee is one of the states with the highest grocery prices in the nation.