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Only Reduced Food Stamps Benefits Will Be Issued, and May Take Months to Get To You

The U. S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, though benefits could take months to flow to recipients, the department said Monday in a brief to a federal court in Rhode Island, despite a court order to tap the necessary money to distribute them. The post Only Reduced Food Stamps Benefits Will Be Issued, and May Take Months to Get To You appeared first on FlaglerLive.

These States Lose Most If Federal Food Aid Runs Out

Large states stand to lose the most federal funding, but a higher percentage of the population receives food assistance in some smaller states. More than 41 million Americans won’t receive federal help buying groceries in November unless Congress reopens the government. “The well has run dry,” the Department of Agriculture wrote on its website on [.] The post These States Lose Most If Federal Food Aid Runs Out appeared first.

New Mexico Legislature approves bills to prop up rural health care, underwrite food assistance

SANTA FE, N. M. (AP) New Mexico lawmakers moved quickly Thursday at a special legislative session to prop up funding for food assistance and rural health care services in response to President Donald Trumps cuts to federal spending on Medicaid and nutrition programs. The Democratic-led Legislature sent a bill to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham that.