The Trump administration announced it will provide partial payments covering about 50% of food stamp benefits to roughly 42 million recipients in November, using $4.65 billion from an emergency fund amid the ongoing government shutdown.

The partial funding, which falls short of the $8 billion needed for full benefits, could take weeks or months to reach households as states work to calculate and distribute the reduced payments. Experts warned that many families may face renewed food insecurity once the partial benefits run out, and that states are unlikely to fully make up for the shortfall.

“The stress that families are facing throughout the country is tremendous, not knowing how they’re going to feed their families,” Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, tells ABC News.

In the PolitiFact article, “Who gets food stamps? Viral chart misleads about SNAP recipients' race, ethnicity,” Heflin says the American Community Survey data on SNAP receipts is self-reported, and that question “is known to have a great deal of measurement error” when compared with SNAP administrative data.

Heflin was also quoted in the Newsweek article, “Map Shows States Covering SNAP Benefits Amid Funding Lapse,” and the USA Today article, “Trump says SNAP will be half funded in November. What does that mean?”