The Trump administration said that based on “further calculations” it has determined it can provide recipients of low-income food assistance about two-thirds of their usual benefits this month, not the 50% it earlier pledged.
Officials at the Department of Agriculture, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, realized the “error” in their earlier calculations and “worked to issue new guidance and tables as soon as it was discovered,” lawyers for the Department of Justice said in court filings late Wednesday.
It was not clear earlier this week that the administration would provide any SNAP benefits to the 42 million Americans ...
Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:
See Breaking News in Context
Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis.
Already a subscriber?
Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources.