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SCOTUS Extends Order Blocking Full SNAP Payments

With end of shutdown in sight, top court grants Trump's request

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended an order blocking full SNAP payments, amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end and food aid payments resume. The order keeps a chaotic situation in place for at least for a few more days. People who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

Administration Tells States to 'Undo' Full SNAP Payments

Late-night memo authorizes 65% of benefits due

(Newser) - The Trump administration has ordered states to halt the distribution of full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November, promising consequences if they don't. In a memo, the Agriculture Department authorizing state governments to make only partial disbursements to the more than 40 million people enrolled in the program—...

SNAP Recipients, States Scrape for Food During Impasse

Supreme Court's stay granted Trump administration delays resolution

(Newser) - People across the country who count on SNAP benefits scrambled again for food on Saturday after the Supreme Court granted a stay to the Trump administration that postponed resolution of the impasse prompted by the government shutdown. Recipients in some states have collected the benefits, while others turned to food...

SCOTUS Order Gives Trump Temporary Win on SNAP

Ketanji Brown Jackson answers emergency appeal, blocks court order to fully fund food aid payments

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to...

Trump Loses SNAP Appeal, Takes Fight to Supreme Court

States already have begun to distribute full payments

(Newser) - A federal appeals court late Friday denied the Trump administration's appeal to block a judge's order to distribute November's SNAP benefits in full despite the government shutdown. The administration then announced it had filed an emergency application over the issue to the Supreme Court, the New York ...

Judge Orders Administration to Make Full SNAP Payments

Government 'failed to consider the harms' partial benefits would inflict on recipients, court says

(Newser) - A federal judge in Rhode Island on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to find the money to fully fund SNAP benefits for November. The ruling by US District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. was in response to a challenge from cities and nonprofits complaining that the government was only offering...

Trump's Threat to Pull SNAP Funding Causes Confusion

Leavitt says he was talking about future payments, not court-ordered current payments

(Newser) - The White House confirmed Tuesday millions of Americans will still receive partial food assistance this month despite a threat from President Trump on social media earlier in the day to withhold funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program until the government reopens.
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Feds: OK, We'll Provide Partial SNAP Benefits

Trump administration says it will comply with judges' orders to tap contingency fund

(Newser) - The Trump administration has agreed to use a contingency fund to provide partial SNAP benefits as the government shutdown continues. According to USDA official Patrick Penn, the administration intends to exhaust the roughly $5.2 billion in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program contingency funds to deliver reduced benefits for November, CBS...

Bessent: Administration Won't Appeal SNAP Orders

Benefits could resume this week, Treasury secretary says

(Newser) - The Trump administration will not appeal court orders to use emergency funds to make SNAP payments, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday, confirming that food benefits could be restored this week. "There's a process that has to be followed," he said on CNN's State of the Union,...

Judges Order White House to Keep Funding Food Stamps

SNAP program was on track to go dry on Saturday amid the government shutdown

(Newser) - Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Trump's administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, during the government shutdown, per the AP . The rulings came a day before the US Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the...

Judge Questions Why SNAP Halt Isn't an Emergency

Ruling could come soon on whether administration has to tap contingency fund

(Newser) - A federal judge signaled on Thursday that she is leaning toward requiring the Trump administration to use emergency reserves to partially fund food assistance for about 42 million Americans, as the government shutdown threatens to halt Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payments starting Saturday. District Judge Indira Talwani, presiding over a...

13th Time Wasn't Lucky for Bill to End Shutdown

GOP-backed stopgap spending bill voted down yet again on day 28 of shutdown

(Newser) - The second-longest government shutdown in US history dragged into its 28th day Tuesday, with the Senate again unable to break a deadlock over funding. For the 13th time, Senate Democrats blocked a GOP spending bill, insisting on protections for health care funding, the Guardian reports. The latest defeat for the...

Over Two Dozen States Sue White House Over Food Stamps

They want judge to order the use of emergency reserves to keep benefits going amid shutdown

(Newser) - The prospect of 42 million Americans losing their federal food benefits because of the government shutdown is now in the hands of the courts. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia filed suit on Tuesday, asking a federal judge to require the Trump administration to use emergency reserves to continue...

SNAP Benefits Won't Go Out on Nov. 1, Administration Says

Post blames Democrats for aid being cut to more than 40M Americans

(Newser) - The Department of Agriculture has announced that SNAP benefits will not be issued on Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown. The message on the department's website blames Senate Democrats for the impasse, NBC News reports. That puts more than 40 million people on track to lose their food...

If Shutdown Persists, Millions Could Lose Food Stamps

Benefits could be delayed, reduced, or stopped as federal funds dwindle for SNAP

(Newser) - If the government shutdown drags into November, roughly 42 million Americans could see their food stamp benefits delayed, reduced, or stopped, the New York Times reports. The warning comes from the Agriculture Department, which USA Today reports told state agencies in a letter dated Oct. 10 that it expects to...

Beverage Companies Hope Trump Blocks SNAP Soda Bans

RFK Jr. supports allowing states to prohibit people from buying soda with benefits

(Newser) - "If you like a McDonald's cheeseburger or Diet Coke, which my boss loves, you should be able to get them," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during one of his Senate confirmation hearings. The Health and Human Services secretary is, however, supporting a push to block people from...

Food Stamps Get Biggest Increase in History

White House raises average monthly benefits from $121 to $157

(Newser) - The Biden administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food stamp assistance available to needy families—the largest single increase in the program's history, per the AP . Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps—officially known as the SNAP program—will rise more...

USDA Chief: We're Nixing 'Loopholes' for Food Stamps

New proposal from Trump administration could kick 3.1M people out of SNAP program

(Newser) - A new proposal from the Trump administration Tuesday could cut more than 3 million people from the food stamps program. Per Reuters , the Department of Agriculture says a tightening of who qualifies for SNAP, aka the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, would save the federal government about $2.5 billion annually;...

Trump Administration May Get Its Food Stamps Wish After All

USDA proposal would tighten waiver eligibility on work requirements

(Newser) - It may soon be more difficult to get food stamps if you're jobless. The Washington Post reports the USDA has a new proposal that would tighten eligibility for food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and it's tied to unemployment. Under the current system, most adults who...

Trump's Plan: Deliver Food Boxes Instead of Food Stamps

But critics say the idea of an 'America's Harvest Box' is 'prone to failure'

(Newser) - Trump administration members are hailing their newest idea as a "bold" approach that would save the government billions and feed more than 38 million people in low-income households, but critics are calling it an approach that's "prone to failure." President Trump's 2019 budget plan was...

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