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The Department of Agriculture, which runs SNAP, has informed states last week that it is seeking to fully pay out SNAP benefits during November despite a funding lapse caused by the government shutdown.<\/p>\n
But last week, the Trump administration appealed a court order requiring it to fully fund SNAP by Friday of last week, as the move would\u2019ve forced the Department of Agriculture to dip into other programs besides the contingency fund.<\/p>\n
Roughly 2.9 million New Yorkers who rely on SNAP should expect their benefits despite \u201cchaos\u201d triggered by the government shutdown. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Supreme Court temporarily paused that lower court order.<\/p>\n
The average household on SNAP gets $332 per month, and the average household with children gets about $575.<\/p>\n
While the Trump administration scrambles to find a makeshift avenue to fund SNAP, Republicans argue that fully restoring payments is simple: Democrats just have to vote for the government funding bill to reopen the government.<\/p>\n
So far, Dems are rejecting a clean stopgap to reopen the government \u2014 demanding that Republicans add more funding for healthcare and Medicaid subsidies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SNAP funding lapsed on Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown. Last week, the Trump administration agreed to tap into about $4.65 billion in its contingency fund to fund about half the program for November.<\/p>\n
The administration previously said in a September memo that it lacked the authority to use the contingency\u00a0fund, which is used for natural disasters and other emergencies, to keep SNAP afloat.<\/p>\n
Trump administration appealed a court order requiring it to fully fund SNAP by Friday of last week. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The administration also ruled out the use of Child Nutrition Program funds to finance SNAP during the lapse due to uncertainty over whether Congress would replenish that money. CNP and the contingency\u00a0fund have roughly enough money to keep SNAP afloat for all of November<\/p>\n
SNAP, which helps feed some 42 million Americans, costs $8.5 to $9 billion each month.<\/p>\n
Various states, including Massachusetts and Connecticut, have announced plans to fully fund the critical food program, while other states such as\u00a0Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana and North Dakota, have rolled out partial benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The government has been shut down\u00a0since Oct. 1 due to a stalemate over how to fund the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered agencies to start paying SNAP benefits to New Yorkers using state funds…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6972,49089,5371,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-367154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-food-stamps","10":"tag-government-shutdown","11":"tag-kathy-hochul","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115520495561941273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367154","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=367154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}