Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

After a week of whiplash in which federal food aid benefits were closed off, then opened, then closed again, Michigan now says SNAP recipients "should receive full benefit payments on their normally scheduled date."

It's still unclear how much or when people enrolled in SNAP will get benefits this month. Thursday night a judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the food stamp benefits. But the administration has already appealed.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says it will resume distributing SNAP benefits on Saturday, but the federal government is only making enough money available for partial payments.

There's uncertainty about whether the department will use additional money or only provide partial benefits for the month. The SNAP program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and costs about $8 billion per month.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, helps feed 42 million people. But funding for the program is set to be suspended November 1.

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