{"id":365874,"date":"2025-11-09T02:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365874\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T02:29:12","slug":"food-banks-and-pantries-pushed-to-limit-in-battle-over-snap-funding-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365874\/","title":{"rendered":"Food banks and pantries pushed to limit in battle over SNAP funding \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the government shutdown delaying SNAP food benefits for more than a week, food banks are feeling the strain.\u00a0The\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0on Friday at least temporarily allowed the\u00a0Trump administration to withhold about $4 billion in payments for the SNAP program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLess produce to give.\u00a0Before, we had like 35, 45 pallets a week, now it\u2019s less,\u201d said Oscar Gildemeister, a supervisor with the Open Hand Association<\/a> in The Bronx. \u201cWe give out food Thursday and Saturday but sometimes we have to open during the week because people come and demand it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The court, via\u00a0an order<\/a>\u00a0issued by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, provisionally blocked an order issued by Rhode Island-based U.S. District Judge John McConnell that required the payments to be made by Friday night.<\/p>\n

SNAP recipient Murad Saleh told News 4 on Saturday that he\u2019s struggling to put food on his table.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have three kids, and I pay everything, and I cover it in the house,\u201d Saleh said.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

He\u2019s relying on that Bronx food pantry to feed himself and his family.\u00a0Saleh and his daughter were among dozens lined up for assistance.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cMore people come for food at this time,\u201d Gildemeister said.<\/p>\n

But the founder of Open Hand warns that the toll is having an impact on the nonprofit as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rent here is $65,000 a year.\u00a0But I owe (the landlord) for two months now,\u201d said Aleks Nilaj.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pantry depends on city grants and private donations, and without more money, may have to close for the holidays, according to Nilaj.<\/p>\n

Tri-State area leaders are trying to help cover the gap for those on SNAP.<\/p>\n

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed state agencies to issue full federal SNAP benefits for November.\u00a0 The first New Yorkers are expected to have access to their benefits starting Sunday, she said.<\/p>\n

Hochul\u2019s fellow Democrat, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, confirmed full payments were made to the state\u2019s 800,000 SNAP recipients before Friday\u2019s Supreme Court stay. Local organizations in the Garden State are coming together to try and help those in need.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough because we\u2019re a family of six and we provide for our grandchildren and our children,” said New Jersey SNAP recipient Anne Pinet.\u00a0\u201cFor the president and the federal government to even be doing this to its citizens is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced that full SNAP benefits for November have been loaded onto the EBT cards of the state\u2019s SNAP recipients.<\/p>\n

Approximately 65% of the funding is from the federal government as directed under a court order, and the remainder is state funding that has been authorized by Gov. Lamont, according to his office.<\/p>\n

It says Connecticut SNAP recipients should now have access to the full funding they would have normally received for the month. But December benefits remain uncertain. Nearly 42 million people rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps.<\/p>\n

The administration has said that because of the government shutdown, there is only enough money to pay partial benefits this month. It had previously agreed to pay about $5 billion from a SNAP contingency fund but objected to paying another $4 billion from a separate program, arguing McConnell had no authority to force it to do so.<\/p>\n

NBC News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the government shutdown delaying SNAP food benefits for more than a week, food banks are feeling the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,49089,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-365874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-government-shutdown","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}