HOUSTON - Three-and-a-half million Texans may not receive the SNAP assistance they depend on in November as the federal government shutdown continues. Half of them are children.

Concerns about no SNAP benefits

What they're saying:

We talked with two women who say they are on medical disability assistance and depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food.

We met Gabrielle Murillo, who tells us she is a single mother of four children who are all under the age of seven. She says she is on medical disability right now after surgery and is unable to work.

Murillo says she already had her SNAP benefits stolen twice this year. SNAP theft is a growing cybercrime we’ve reported on where benefits are drained before recipients are able to use them.

While Murillo says

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