{"id":19145,"date":"2025-10-27T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19145\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T22:50:10","slug":"ny-fast-tracks-30m-as-federal-snap-benefits-wont-be-paid-on-nov-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19145\/","title":{"rendered":"NY fast-tracks $30M as federal SNAP benefits won\u2019t be paid on Nov. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The state is fast-tracking $30 million in emergency food aid to help New Yorkers who receive SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be paid on November 1 due to the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday that $30 million in state funds will be used to support more than 16 million meals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is in addition to the $11 million in emergency food aid that was announced last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI am committed to ensuring New Yorkers do not go hungry this holiday season,\u201d Hochul said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The governor also launched a new website where New Yorkers can share their personal stories about the effects of the shutdown and federal cuts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She said nearly 3 million people in the state could lose their food assistance in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The shutdown, which began on October 1, is now the second-longest on record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Trump administration said it would not tap roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing into November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This would mark the first time in U.S. history that a federal administration has halted food assistance during a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, New York (WWNY) &#8211; The state is fast-tracking $30 million in emergency food aid to help New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13162,10605,32,1070,426,9,11,10,49,51,50,10604],"class_list":{"0":"post-19145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-aid","9":"tag-benefits","10":"tag-emergency","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-kathy-hochul","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-snap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}