DENVER — When the federal government reopens, hundreds of thousands of Coloradans are wondering when SNAP benefits will go back to normal.

In an e-mail a spokesperson for CDHS wrote:

"While this situation continues to evolve, the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) and its technical partners have resumed processing under this new directive and are taking steps to issue payments onto SNAP recipients' Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards as rapidly as possible. If current guidance stays in place, these much needed partial SNAP funds will be available to more than 500,000 Coloradans this coming week."

What non-profits are clocking is how fast the state can move. When the state initially got the order to give out full benefits last Friday, they rolled it out to around 32,000 pe

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