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USDA Rules Out Emergency Funds for SNAP as Shutdown Puts November Benefits at Risk

New guidance says contingency reserves are legally limited to sudden disasters, leaving no mechanism to repay states that front food aid.

USDA Declines To Use Contingency Funds, Putting November SNAP Payments at Risk

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Conservative Dossier Alleges ‘Homelessness Industrial Complex,’ Urges Tighter Federal Scrutiny

Shutdown Threatens November SNAP as USDA Orders States to Hold Issuance

Shutdown Reaches Three Weeks as Senate Blocks GOP Bill for 11th Time

SNAP Faces November Payment Freeze as New Work Rules Take Effect

USDA Tells States to Hold November SNAP Files as Shutdown Puts 42 Million Benefits at Risk

USDA Tells States to Delay November SNAP as White House Shifts $300 Million to Keep WIC Afloat

24-Hour ‘Conversations on a Bench’ Livestream Unites 70+ Missions to Humanize Homelessness

USDA Orders States to Enforce Tighter SNAP Work Rules by Nov. 1

New York Raises Jobless Pay Cap to $869, With Increases Hitting Checks Next Week

Budget 2026 Nears Sign-Off With No Tax-Band Change and VAT Cuts to Lead

International Day of Older Persons Marked Worldwide With Policy Moves and Safety Appeals

Judge Blocks USDA SNAP Data Push as Kansas Faces Funding Freeze

Maharashtra Tests Samanvay Welfare Database, Weighs Monetising Anonymised ‘Golden Data’

Projected 2026 Social Security COLA May Be Blunted by Higher Medicare Part B Costs

INAPP Warns of 6.1 Million Worker Exodus in 10 Years Threatening Welfare System

Piquetero Groups March in Buenos Aires to Demand Restoration of Food Aid

RENIEC Expands Senior Benefit With ‘No Caduca’ DNI as Peru Shifts to DNIe 3.0

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta Leads Cleanliness Drive, Warns Against Wall Defacement