Rulings by judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Oct. 31 ordered the department to use $5.25 billion in contingency funds to continue SNAP.

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Some 42 million recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will have to wait for them to be restored ...

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More than five million low-income Californians are expected to lose their CalFresh food assistance benefits starting Saturday. States are suing the Trump administration to reinstate aid.

A federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts gave the United States Department of Agriculture until Monday to come up with a plan to at least partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.