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A Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to withhold full payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP ) has left beneficiaries and state officials in our region unsure of what the decision's impact will be amid the government shutdown.

Both Pennsylvania and New Jersey began processing full November payments to their residents registered for the program on Friday, Nov. 7, before Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a temporary pause of a lower court's ruling forcing the full payments to go out.

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On Friday night, Jackson temporarily paused that judicial order to allow time for an appeals court to decide whether to issue a more lasting

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