The Trump administration will use USDA contingency funds to deliver partial payments, leaving 41 million Americans to stretch reduced food aid as courts push for full funding.

SNAP recipients will now receive half their usual benefits for the month of November. But when can impacted families expect to receive those funds? We asked state officials.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) Board of Trustees will consider three options Thursday when it meets in Hilo to decide on a relief program to distribute more than $6.1 million in emergency funding to Native Hawaiian beneficiaries impacted by the federal government shutdown and delayed or reduced SNAP benefit assistance.

St. Johns County commissioners agree to provide $200,000 to help SNAP recipients buy food and to suspend water disconnections in November.

As the federal government shutdown drags on into a 36th day, the state announced it will use $2.2 million in carryover funds to provide heating assistance benefits to some 4,000 Maine households who signed up for HEAP benefits in August and September.

Borrowing funds from one program to pay for another is certainly not ideal and is not a long-term solution,” MaineHousing Director Dan Brennan said.

Many federal workers are struggling to make ends meet amid the ongoing government shutdown, including firefighters at the Great Lakes Fire Department at Naval Station Great Lakes.