DENVER — With food benefits on hold for November due to the government shutdown, Coloradans are turning to food banks now more than ever.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income families purchase food. It feeds about 600,000 Coloradans each month, half of whom are children.
Denver7 met Heather Behm, a single mom stocking up at a food pantry in Lakewood on Thursday. She said she relies on SNAP and receives $500 a month to feed her family.
However, hundreds of thousands of Coloradans who rely on SNAP will have to find other ways to put food on the table next month, after state officials announced Tuesday that those benefits were now on hold for November due to the government shutdown…