November 7, 2025

Earlier this evening we sent you an item from the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island stating that this afternoon Governor Hochul had announced NYS would cover full food stamp benefits for eligible beneficiaries in the month of November, and that recipients could begin receiving benefits as soon as Sunday. But at the same time that the Governor’s announcement was hitting the streets, the Trump Administration was filing an appeal of the federal court ruling requiring the Administration to fund the benefits in full in November.

At 10:06 this evening the NY Times reported that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has temporarily halted the lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full. Apparently the justice did not rule on the legality of the White House’s actions. Instead, she imposed a pause meant to give an appeals court more time to weigh the legal arguments raised by the government, as it seeks to withhold funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program during the shutdown.

And again, some states (including NYS) had already said that they were preparing to send out full food stamp benefits. To this point, the NY Times just wrote “…the order, known as an administrative stay, came as a growing number of states, including New York, Kansas, Pennsylvania and Oregon, said that they had released full benefits to their residents anyway, as they scrambled to restart the nation’s largest anti-hunger program after weeks of delays. It remained unclear late Friday how the temporary hold imposed by the justice might now affect some of those benefit payments.”

We will keep you updated.