The Trump administration has one day to fully distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

Prior presidential administrations have continued paying SNAP benefits during past shutdowns of the U.S. government.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be distributed until the federal government is funded and reopened despite federal court orders.

The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.

The Trump administration recently said it would not pay any SNAP benefits, but then offered partial funding of the food stamp program after a judge's ruling.

The federal judge ruled that Trump was choosing to withhold federal food aid due to "political reasons".

The Trump administration has one day to fully distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

The Trump administration has one day to fully distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans full SNAP benefits for November by Friday.

The Trump administration is appealing a judge's order for it to provide full SNAP food aid benefits to states by Nov. 7.

The Trump administration has appealed an order that had demanded that it pay out full benefits to those in the SNAP for November within one day.

U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. had given Trump’s administration until Friday to make the payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

New guidance to states tells them the funds will be made available on Friday even as the administration appeals a court order.

The Trump administration told states to make benefits available even as it asked the Supreme Court to let it block the benefits.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block a judge's order to promptly pay full SNAP food benefits for November.

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court said Friday that the Trump administration does not have to immediately pay SNAP food benefits defunded during the government shutdown, a temporary…

The food assistance programme has been caught in a back-and-forth legal battle over funding as the government shutdown drags on.