If you’re one of the roughly 112,000 people in San Francisco receiving benefits through CalFresh — the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, sometimes referred to as food stamps — you’ll be receiving a prepaid grocery card this week from the city.

The card is intended to help San Franciscans on CalFresh buy food while their November SNAP payments are delayed during the ongoing federal government shutdown, now in its second month.

On Nov. 3, President Donald Trump’s administration said it would use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s contingency fund to provide SNAP payments in November after all, having previously claimed that it could not tap this fund.

But the White House warned that payments would still only be half of people’s regular benefits, and t

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