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ihaveaquestion

(4,272 posts) Mon Nov 3, 2025, 04:19 PM Nov 3

SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed

Source: NPR

The Trump administration says it will restart SNAP food benefits but it will pay out only half the amount people normally get.

The administration says it will use money from an Agriculture Department contingency fund. The $5 billion in that fund falls well short of the full cost of SNAP benefits — $8 billion — each month. In a court filing, officials said depleting that fund means "no funds will remain for new SNAP applicants certified in November, disaster assistance, or as a cushion against the potential catastrophic consequences of shutting down SNAP entirely."
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The administration warns there could be lengthy delays before benefits get into the hands of low-income families who depend on SNAP to put food on the table.
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Delays and 'a logistical nightmare'
A delay in benefits was expected regardless of the outcome of the court cases, because many beneficiaries have their cards recharged early in the month and the process of loading cards can take a week or more in many states.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/03/nx-s1-5596121/snap-food-benefits-trump-government-shutdown

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SNAP benefits will restart, but will be half the normal payment and delayed (Original Post) ihaveaquestion Nov 3 OP

We shall see.. TY Cha Nov 3 #1

There is nothing Americans like more than 1/2 a Thanksgiving Dinner bucolic_frolic Nov 3 #2

Have no fear: the Trumps will dine on multiple whole turkeys, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Nov 4 #21

This is a wilful delay. Baitball Blogger Nov 3 #3

Trumpified C_U_L8R Nov 3 #4

Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges' rulings LetMyPeopleVote Nov 3 #5

He always looks like a brass plated hasbeen Marthe48 Nov 3 #9

Translation F the Courts, we're still starving kids Bread and Circuses Nov 3 #6

If these partial benefits are paid, it will still be a defeat for Trump synni Nov 3 #7

Oh how generous dear emperor Clouds Passing Nov 3 #8

Republicans think that their lot in life is to punish people. louis-t Nov 3 #10

Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is lying. Wiz Imp Nov 3 #11

As a senior and SNAP recipient orangecrush Nov 3 #12

No grease needed CountAllVotes Nov 4 #15

That will be an even bigger wake up call Miguelito Loveless Nov 4 #13

So, this means I'll get twelve bucks CountAllVotes Nov 4 #14

Can I place a bet? Kevin Cloyd Nov 4 #16

He just said he's not releasing any SNAP benefits. ForgoTheConsequence Nov 4 #17

I just checked my account CountAllVotes Nov 4 #18

Of Course He Won't! Asshole! ihaveaquestion Nov 4 #19

Trump says SNAP food stamp benefits won't be paid until shutdown ends, sparking confusion LetMyPeopleVote Nov 4 #20

Cha

(315,831 posts)

1. We shall see.. TY

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 04:23 PM

Nov 3

bucolic_frolic

(53,259 posts)

2. There is nothing Americans like more than 1/2 a Thanksgiving Dinner

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 04:31 PM

Nov 3

The Administration's timing is impeccable. Dems should be able to make bank on it!

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,486 posts)

21. Have no fear: the Trumps will dine on multiple whole turkeys, ...

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 02:45 PM

Nov 4

... starting with the last two that Biden "pardoned".

Yum.

Baitball Blogger

(51,468 posts)

3. This is a wilful delay.

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 04:44 PM

Nov 3

C_U_L8R

(48,546 posts)

4. Trumpified

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 04:51 PM

Nov 3

"Half the normal payment and delayed" is exactly what former Trump vendors, partners and employees warned us about.
He's a rotten crook.

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,659 posts)

5. Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges' rulings

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 05:55 PM

Nov 3

Last edited Mon Nov 3, 2025, 06:27 PM - Edit history (1)

Reduced benefits suck for these recipients. They were barely getting by with full benefits.

apnews.com/live/donald-... updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judgesâ€™ rulings
— (@lcook2936.bsky.social) 2025-11-03T17:21:03.169Z

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-3-2025

President Donald Trump’s administration said Monday that it will partially fund SNAP after a pair of judges’ rulings required it to keep the food aid program running.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture had planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program starting Nov. 1 because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net. It costs about $8 billion per month nationally.

It’s not clear how much beneficiaries will receive, nor how quickly beneficiaries will see value show up on the debit cards they use to buy groceries. The process of loading the SNAP cards, which involves steps by state and federal government agencies and vendors, can take up to two weeks in some states. The average monthly benefit is usually about $190 per person.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the nation’s largest food program, said last month that benefits for November wouldn’t be paid out due to the federal government shutdown. That set off a scramble by food banks, state governments and the nearly 42 million Americans who receive the aid to find ways to ensure access to groceries.

Marthe48

(22,362 posts)

9. He always looks like a brass plated hasbeen

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 06:10 PM

Nov 3

Was he born like that? Did his face freeze in a permanent pout?

Bread and Circuses

(1,394 posts)

6. Translation F the Courts, we're still starving kids

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 06:03 PM

Nov 3

synni

(642 posts)

7. If these partial benefits are paid, it will still be a defeat for Trump

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 06:05 PM

Nov 3

He was hoping to play Scrooge early, and cut off SNAP before Thanksgiving.

I've been told that we'll get the rest of our benefits when the government shutdown ends, but what's going to happen in December?

Clouds Passing

(6,540 posts)

8. Oh how generous dear emperor

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 06:07 PM

Nov 3

louis-t

(24,530 posts)

10. Republicans think that their lot in life is to punish people.

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 07:20 PM

Nov 3

They can't WAIT to shut down SNAP.

Wiz Imp

(8,152 posts)

11. Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is lying.

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:31 PM

Nov 3

First of all, the SNAP contingency fund has been reported as having $6 billion (not $5 billion). Second, based on the data on the USDA website, the monthly cost of full SNAP benefits is closer to $7 billion, rather than the $8 billion they claim in this article. So rather than falling "well short" of the full cost of benefits each month, the contingency fund in reality could cover over 80% of those costs.

orangecrush

(27,582 posts)

12. As a senior and SNAP recipient

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 11:39 PM

Nov 3

Allow me to tell him to shove his "partial" payment up his fat orange ass sideways without grease.

CountAllVotes

(22,030 posts)

15. No grease needed

Reply to orangecrush (Reply #12)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:17 PM

Nov 4

Slimy and sleazy enough already!

Miguelito Loveless

(5,356 posts)

13. That will be an even bigger wake up call

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:07 AM

Nov 4

CountAllVotes

(22,030 posts)

14. So, this means I'll get twelve bucks

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:13 PM

Nov 4

Twelve BIG BEAUTIFUL BUCKS!

Shove it where the sun don't shine no mo'!!!!!!!!

Kevin Cloyd

(108 posts)

16. Can I place a bet?

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:25 PM

Nov 4

Can I place a bet on how long it will be until FOXNEWS runs a story on how much lobster sales fell off then rebounded when SNAP half payments resumed? (48 hours or less is where my money would go.)

ForgoTheConsequence

(5,136 posts)

17. He just said he's not releasing any SNAP benefits.

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:32 PM

Nov 4

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-snap-benefits-shutdown_n_690a2678e4b0d65f7022f8d2

CountAllVotes

(22,030 posts)

18. I just checked my account

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #17)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 12:53 PM

Nov 4

There is nothing there for the month of November, nothing! Not even those twelve big beautiful bucks!

ihaveaquestion

(4,272 posts)

19. Of Course He Won't! Asshole!

Reply to ForgoTheConsequence (Reply #17)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:02 PM

Nov 4

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,659 posts)

20. Trump says SNAP food stamp benefits won't be paid until shutdown ends, sparking confusion

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Tue Nov 4, 2025, 01:44 PM

Nov 4

trump is ignoring court order and is using SNAP to try to force Democrats to give in. These efforts will fail.

ðŸŠ says SNAP benefits won't be paid until shutdown ends, sparking confusion.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins warned on X, it would be a "cumbersome process" that could result in a weeks-long delay in food stamp payments going out recipients.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-s...
— @Divscotty (@divscotty.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T18:01:53.526Z

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-snap-food-stamps-government-shutdown/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=874549999

Washington — President Trump said Tuesday that federal food benefits provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will go out only when Democrats vote to end the ongoing government shutdown.

In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote that SNAP benefits "will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government, which they can easily do, and not before!"

Mr. Trump's comment comes a day after administration lawyers told a federal court in Rhode Island that it would tap into a contingency fund to issue partial food stamp payments for November. The Justice Department said in a filing that the Department of Agriculture would provide states with information necessary for calculating the benefits due to each eligible household, which would allow states to then begin disbursements.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on X that her agency sent that guidance to states Tuesday morning, but warned it would be a "cumbersome process" that could result in a weeks-long delay in food stamp payments going out recipients.....

More than 42 million Americans rely on SNAP to purchase food each month. The program is funded by the federal government and administered by states, which distribute the nutrition assistance to eligible participants. But the Department of Agriculture said late last month that the food aid would not go out to recipients on Nov. 1 because "the well has run dry" amid the government shutdown.....

Patrick Penn, a Department of Agriculture official who oversees SNAP, said in a declaration that the administration "intends to deplete SNAP contingency funds completely and provide reduced SNAP benefits for November 2025." He told the court there is roughly $4.6 billion in the reserve for the November payments, which would be used to cover half of eligible households' allotments.

But he warned the aid would likely not go out immediately because of possible "payment errors and significant delays" due to variations among state eligibility systems, which have to be adjusted for the reduced payments.

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