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 impact of the federal government shutdown is now being felt in Michigan as officials say SNAP benefits have been paused.

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.