HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The Trump administration agreed Monday to partially fund SNAP benefits but said it could take, at the very least, a few weeks to get the money on EBT cards.

The money will come from an emergency fund following an order from a federal judge in Rhode Island.

It doesn’t appear the partial funding is going to change distribution efforts going on in West Virginia to some 144,000 households that receive SNAP benefits.

“We’re going to continue to direct our efforts like there are no benefits,” Cyndi Kirkhart, CEO of the Huntington-based Facing Hunger Foodbank, said Monday on MetroNews Midday. “Until we know they are coming–they aren’t.”

The Morrisey administration is funneling millions of dollars from leftover covid funds to Facing Hunger and the Mountaineer Foodbank to di

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