Some Ohioans started receiving partial November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, payments Wednesday.

SNAP was halted due to the government shutdown at the beginning of the month. President Donald Trump and federal courts went back and forth determining whether the nation’s 42 million SNAP recipients would receive full payments, partial payments or no payments at all.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture directed Ohio to begin distributing partial SNAP payments.

The Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services said it processed partial SNAP payments to approximately 364,000 households so far, about half of the Ohio households expected to receive SNAP benefits in November.

Tammy Tucker, from Cleveland, has not received hers yet.

“It's frustrating becau

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