After a delay due to the federal shutdown, Kansas Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients have now received their full November benefits, though the move comes as federal back and forth over funding the food benefit continues.
The lag — which began Nov. 1 after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it lacked the money to fund the program that feeds 40 million Americans — sent states scrambling to fill gaps and support food banks and other feeding programs. In a Nov. 7 announcement, the Kansas Department of Children and Families said the more than 180,000 Kansas recipients should now have critical funds to put food on their tables this November.
Many of those Kansans are residents of Sedgwick County, according to July data from the DCF…