For anyone who receives food stamps, you should check the dss website and check for your state, I don't know for your state how it's all effected in each state but Missouri resident's got two payments one is the normal food stamps you get every month on the set date and the other is for February's amount.. So basically we got double our normal amount and won't receive any during the actual month of February and won't get anymore until the partial government shut down is over.