CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Around 2 million people in the Carolinas are at risk of losing food aid temporarily, as the federal government shutdown stretches on without an end in sight.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits more than 1.4 million North Carolinians, state data shows.

More than 130,000 of those individuals are in Mecklenburg County.

“I am definitely worried for the people that cannot afford,” said Blair Tedder, a Charlotte mother . “There are several people that actually rely on feeding their kids with this EBT.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture posted to its website that there will be no SNAP benefits issued on Nov. 1.

“It’s just really going to be hard. It’s scary in a way, very scary,” Lindsey Gainey told our sister station WIS in Columbia, S.C.

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