Alabama Stackers, a family-owned restaurant in historic downtown Jasper, has announced that children will eat free starting Nov. 1.

Recipients and those in need of food assistance should still submit applications and other documentation, even though the assistance will not be distributed starting Saturday. The Alabama Department of Human Resources (DHR) announced Monday that benefits for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) will be suspended for November.

Alabama is not among the states that are getting involved ahead of the suspension of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, starting Nov. 1. The prospect of nearly 42 million Americans not receiving food assistance has raised concerns across states governed by both political parties.

Millions rely on food assistance each month, and with the government shutdown still in place, food stamps will soon run dry.

The Alabama Department of Human Resources has confirmed the state will not be providing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the month of November because of the federal government shutdown.

Americans uses the SNAP program to buy groceries, but this week, according to *** memo put out by the Department of Agriculture, Federal food aid will not go out beginning November 1st. *** post on their website reads the well has run dry and blamed Senate Democrats for demanding health care concessions amid the now nearly month-long government shutdown.

New numbers show that as many as 70,000 people in Birmingham could lose their SNAP benefits in the coming days.

The USDA says food stamp funding will be suspended Nov. 1 due to the shutdown. Louisiana's governor issued an emergency order to continue state SNAP benefits. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama residents who rely on SNAP benefits will not receive new payments in November due to the federal government shutdown, state officials said.

Thousands of Alabama families could soon lose access to their food-stamp benefits as the federal government shutdown drags on. For Ashley King, a single mother of two in Montgomery, the timing couldn’t be worse.