The Michigan proposal would allocate $50 million for EBT cards and $20 million for food banks and farm programs to help Michigan residents during the federal SNAP pause.

Michigan's Double Up Food Bucks program has temporarily expanded the options for SNAP recipients to double their purchase value for produce.

SNAP benefits will halt in November if the federal government shutdown continues. How it will affect people in Michigan.

Due to the federal government shutdown, SNAP benefits will pause on Nov. 1, prompting food banks in Michigan to increase operations and the state to donate $4.5 million to the Food Bank Council to help families in need.

House Speaker Matt Hall called the Senate plan "fake" and "political" while touting his work with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to provide $4.5 million to food banks in the state.

Muskegon food pantries are preparing for the potential pause in SNAP benefits in Michigan as the deadlock in Washington D.C. over the federal government budget continues.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the program that helps 1.4 million Michiganders put food on the table, could go dark by Saturday amid the federal government shutdown.

The state of Michigan is sending $4.5 million to the Food Bank Council of Michigan as more than one million residents face a pause in federal food assistance payments.

State elected Democrats are struggling to pull together a plan that would continue food assistance for roughly 1.4 million Michiganders, just days before a Nov. 1 deadline. Attorney General Dana Nessel has sued President Donald Trump’s administration in response to an announcement that - starting next month - it will cut off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)