Supreme Court extends pause on SNAP benefits
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The first score in Iowa football vs Oregon was a strange one. A bad snap to Hawkeyes punter Rhys Dakin and an illegal kicking penalty caused a safety.
Tennesseans started receiving partial SNAP payments Wednesday after the Tennessee Department of Human Services received updated federal guidance.
Partial payments for SNAP benefits started showing up in Oklahomans’ accounts this week, but for many, it was not what they expected.
The Trump administration said on Nov. 3 that it planned to partially fund food aid for millions of Americans after two judges ruled it must use contingency funds to pay for the benefits in November. It could take days, if not a week or more, for the money to arrive.
SNAP agencies and recipients brace for delays in food assistance along with policy changes that are expected to kick millions off the program.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will begin fully funding SNAP benefits a day after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to do so. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports on the decision and the plans to appeal the court's ruling.
On a chilly October morning, Roby Farin pulled up in her red Ford truck in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center with a truckload of winter squash from her farm in Middletown. Like clockwork, a gaggle of volunteers wearing neon bright shirts circled around the truck and started unloading the gourds onto shopping carts.
Extra state funding will be distributed to food banks across the state as more than 1 million Massachusetts residents are facing the loss of SNAP benefits, Gov. Healey announced.