DENVER – As the federal government shutdown nears an end, SNAP recipients and travelers are asking when benefits and air travel will return to normal operations.
“For SNAP, it’s mostly a matter of making sure that funds are transferred, and states have the ability to transfer those funds directly to EBT cards that allows folks to use those SNAP benefits. So that shouldn’t take too long, one or two days,” Dr. Robert Preuhs, chair of the Political Science Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
But Preuhs said it’ll take longer for air travel to resume normal operations…