A daunting countdown is on for the pause of SNAP benefits for more than 40 million Americans.
The government shutdown will force the agency to stop sending out assistance on Saturday. And nearly 3 million people in Florida rely on that help every day.
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<
Sherry Call lives in a van parked near a Harveys Supermarket in Jacksonville. She depends on SNAP benefits to buy food — but in just days, those payments will stop.
“I’m homeless too, so that means a lot,” Call said. “It means I’ll be starving. And we’ll have to go to the churches, and there will be people stealing. And robbing. And it’s the holidays.”…