At 1 a.m. Thursday morning, Symone Wilkes, a Detroit resident and mother of two young sons, received a loud alert on her phone. It was her MI Bridges app — the site through which state benefits are provided — alerting her that her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has asked state officials to temporarily pause November food benefits for the roughly 1.4 million Michiganders who rely on them amid the ongoing federal shutdown.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says it was instructed to hold November SNAP payments "due to the ongoing federal government funding lapse."

The state is warning the 1.4 million people who receive SNAP benefits that there will be no funds next month. It's due to the federal government shutdown.

A program that provides benefits to low-income households for buying groceries will be paused in November. Michigan says the federal government instructed them that a lapse in funding was due to the shutdown.

Michigan's Double Up Food Bucks program extends the purchase power for food stamp recipients at participating retailers.