The Greater Chicago Food Depository will set up temporary distribution sites in areas with the highest concentration of SNAP participants starting Saturday.

Though a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture must use contingency funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the federal government shutdown, nonprofits that were bracing for a cutoff in benefits along with surging demand are still keeping emergency response plans in place.

Even with a judicial ruling to fund SNAP or even if the federal government reopens, SNAP participants will still experience some delay in their benefits, food depository spokesperson Man-Yee Lee confirmed. And tens of thousands of federal workers are missing paychecks because of the shutdown.

“Our emergency response wi

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