A compromise that could end the government shutdown hasn't stopped the confusion around feeding families in need.

About 440,000 Minnesotans rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to get groceries each month. Many of them are children or seniors. Legal battles are making it difficult to ensure that meals end up on Minnesota dinner tables.

Visitors to a food shelf in south Minneapolis said they were confused over SNAP benefits. Some people had gotten them, some have not, and everyone is unsure when all the uncertainty will end.

"I am as confused as anyone else is," said Sharon Abel, the Groveland Food Shelf director.

Some SNAP recipients told WCCO they had not yet gotten their money in their accounts. One woman said she had $230 in her account.

"I was robbing Pet

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