STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After weeks of uncertainty surrounding whether New Yorkers would receive the food assistance benefits they rely on to feed their families, those residents can now breathe a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n
On Nov. 7, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York would soon begin issuing full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits for the month of November.<\/p>\n
The benefits had been in limbo due to the since-ended federal government shutdown and the administration\u2019s attempts to withhold food assistance, which had never been done during a previous government shutdown, despite court orders.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter weeks of the Trump administration putting millions of New Yorkers through chaos and confusion, following guidance from USDA, I\u2019ve directed state agencies to issue full federal SNAP benefits for November. We expect the first New Yorkers to begin having access to their benefits starting Sunday,\u201d Hochul said at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me be clear, President Trump is hellbent on preventing millions of Americans from putting food on the table. He\u2019s made decision after decision to withhold funding that feeds families, seniors and children \u2014 and continues doubling down on this cruelty by challenging the courts\u2019 clear orders. It\u2019s senseless and un-American and I\u2019m working tirelessly to bring this uncertainty to an end for the nearly three million New Yorkers who rely on this program,” the governor added.<\/p>\n
While some New Yorkers have already received their November benefits, others may still be waiting.<\/p>\n
NYC Health + Hospitals issued an update on Saturday saying that all New Yorkers enrolled in the program are expected to receive their benefits by this week.<\/p>\n
On Staten Island, more than 22,000 households rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table, with some neighborhoods seeing as many as 25% of all households receiving benefits, a recent Advance\/SILive.com data analysis found.<\/a><\/p>\n The 10304 ZIP code, which covers Clifton, Concord, Emerson Hill, Stapleton and parts of Todt Hill and Dongan Hills, has 3,978 households receiving SNAP benefits, representing 25% of all households in the ZIP code, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau\u2019s 2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After weeks of uncertainty surrounding whether New Yorkers would receive the food assistance benefits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-42843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843","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=42843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}