No SNAP benefit for November in Texas.

[Igel]

11. SNAP funds are issued by the feds.

States get the money well before the start of the next month. They hand out the money. Full stop.

If the feds don't pay, states don't get the money to pay out. But the Oct. funds were distributed a week or so before Oct. 1 and the start of the 'shut down'.

However, states do have the option of authorizing state funds to cover SNAP (or to increase benefits). How much that ability to authorize distribution of state funds to cover SNAP rather depends on what authority the state constitution and legislature have granted--or where there's wiggle room for the governor to appropriate or "borrow" with a nice IOU to repay the tapped money bucket. We both hate and love that wiggle room, depending on whose ox is gored and whose ox is fed.

I live in TX. I can't stand the state constitution, the sprawling, bloated thing, a hodge-podge of a patchwork quilt. A lot of what most states call "statutes" are constitutional articles in the Lone Star State. Still, I honestly don't know if the executive in TX has this kind of authority; I've only lived here for more than 20 years.

I think I recall seeing other states' legislatures specifically authorize this kind of funding. Or maybe that's "state's legislature".

WIC is different. It's entirely federal.