Despite initial warnings from the Trump administration, Michigan will not be punished for issuing full payments of food assistance benefits to residents during the government shutdown.

Michigan stood to lose about $100 million in federal funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) administration costs for failing to claw back full food assistance payments it issued amid a legal back-and-forth over whether, and how much, states could pay out SNAP benefits.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had said only partial SNAP benefit payments were authorized and threatened to make states like Michigan also pay the difference between the full payments and the partial payments.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much that difference was for Michigan. Michigan Department of Heal

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