Trump Agrees to Partial Food Stamps Payment in Nov - Here's How Much

We have an update on the ongoing food stamp saga and that is that the Trump administration has agreed to a partial payment for food stamps or SNAP benefits as they are officially called for the month of November despite the government shutdown. We are going to tell you all about it, how much it's going to be and when you can expect the money. Hey financial warriors, welcome to the show. My name is Ben Hedges aka the credit shifu and on this channel I cover US credit cards, personal finance and luxury travel. If you like the sound of that, please subscribe. But let's get into the video. So, the Trump administration has made the decision to pay 50% of the usual amount of food stamps payments to all recipients for November. They had a deadline of today, November 3rd, to inform a judge in Rhode Island, what they were going to do about paying for food stamps amidst the government shutdown. The judge had given them two options. either make a full food stamps payment to all the 42 million Americans that use food stamps using money from the child nutrition program, another government program, or they could make a partial payment using all of the money that's left in the contingency fund at the USDA, which is earmarked for food stamps, which apparently has about $4.65 billion left in it. Court documents released today show that the administration has decided to use the whole contingency fund to make that partial payment, which should amount to about half of what people normally get. The court document also stated that if they choose the partial payment route, quote, "Under no circumstances shall partial payments be made later than Wednesday, November 5th." So, it looks like we do have a clear resolution for this whole food stamps mess. If you are on food stamps, you will get a partial payment and federal funds will be made available for this by Wednesday. And hopefully the states will be able to get those funds out to your EBT card on Wednesday. Now, this only resolves the issue for November since once those funds are used up in that contingency fund. There really is no more money. And then if the government shutdown continues into December, there will have to be another fight over where funds come from for December payments. But realistically, I think this shutdown will have ended by then. I doubt any politicians want to continue a government shutdown through Thanksgiving. And Trump is already talking on Truth Social about ending the filibuster so that Republicans can pass a spending bill with a simple majority in the Senate. Now, people in some states, like Virginia, for example, will get additional government help. The governor had already committed to paying food stamps with state funding. Their program actually started today and presumably will make up the shortfall with the government's partial payments. So, probably they're going to make up that 50%. Other states like California have diverted extra money to food banks that STAP recipients can use. You can check out this video to get advice for each state here. And there's also a code that you can use with Go Puff delivery service to get $50 worth of free groceries if you are a food stamps recipient. I'll put a link to a landing page that gives you all the details of that in a pin comment down below. Otherwise, that's the video for today. Thanks for watching, guys. Please subscribe if you're new for more financial tips and tricks. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye.