(NEXSTAR) — SNAP recipients have again been thrown for a loop after the U.S. Department of Agriculture instructed states to "immediately undo" actions they had taken to send out full food assistance benefits following a string of court decisions.

At first, states were instructed to send out partial benefits, then slightly larger benefits, then full benefits. Then Friday night, the Supreme Court responded to a request from the Trump administration to halt that latter decision for the time being, just hours after several states had sent out full SNAP benefits to their recipients.

In a directive to local SNAP directors (the USDA oversees SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but states administer the grocery assistance program) on Saturday, the USDA warned that those who d

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