SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It’s day 17 of the federal government shutdown and tensions are starting to rise as funding impacts may soon start impacting people in South Dakota.
According to the South Dakota Democratic Party, the South Dakota Department of Social Services has been instructed by the federal government to freeze SNAP payments.
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Nearly 75,000 South Dakotans, 29,000 of them children, would lose access to food security, according to DSS data.
In a press release, SDDP Executive Director Dan Ahlers said the SNAP funding freeze will hurt rural communities and low-wage workers hard…