JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - We’ve shared the logistics and politics behind the upcoming pause on SNAP benefits. But for those recipients, it’s more than political.

“The closer it gets to the first, the closer that I don’t even know what to do,” said Jolie Hatfield.

Jolie Hatfield gets SNAP benefits. She has six kids. But their financial situation has changed as the father of three of those kids was deported a month ago.

He had been part of their financial support system.

Then, when it was time for her SNAP deposit in October, she got an insufficient funds message at the store.

“$1,184 of my food stamps was stolen,” she said. “They left $2.49.”

As WLBT has shared in other cases, the federal funding no longer exists to reimburse those stolen benefits.

They went to a local food bank init

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