NATIONWIDE — THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MUST CORRECT ERRORS IN ITS NEW FEDERAL INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING ELIGIBILITY, says New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 20 counterparts.

The coalition asserts that these errors involve eligibility requirements for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Responding to new restrictions on non-citizens’ eligibility, the coalition claims that USDA’s latest guidance memo wrongly treats several groups of immigrants as ineligible for food assistance, contradicts long-standing federal law, and could unlawfully block lawful permanent residents who were granted asylum or entered the United States as refugees, parolees, or other humanitarian entrants from receiving the food benefits to which they are en

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