{"id":53951,"date":"2025-11-18T03:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/53951\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:59:20","slug":"texans-again-receiving-full-snap-benefits-state-health-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/53951\/","title":{"rendered":"Texans again receiving full SNAP benefits, state health department says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTexans began receiving full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/a> benefits Nov. 14, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission announced<\/a>. The renewed SNAP payments came after two weeks of delays due to the 43-day federal government shutdown, which ended Nov. 12.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

SNAP is a federally funded program that provides low-income individuals and families with monthly stipends to spend on groceries. The food assistance program ran out of funding Nov. 1<\/a>, one month after the government shut down amid disagreements over federal health insurance subsidies.<\/p>\n

Over 3.5 million Texans receive SNAP benefits each month, according to Feeding Texas<\/a>, the statewide network of food banks. Payments are issued on a rolling basis throughout each month.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor SNAP clients who receive benefits on or after the 14th of the month, full benefits will be issued on their normal issuance date,\u201d the HHSC website<\/a> states. \u201cSNAP clients who already received partial benefits will receive the rest of their monthly amount on or after Nov. 14.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Texans received partial SNAP payments beginning Nov. 10, according to previous HHSC guidance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shutdown reminded us of a sobering reality: countless Texans are just one unexpected emergency or missed paycheck away from needing help\u2014whether from a food bank or with assistance from the SNAP,\u201d Feeding Texas said in a Nov. 13 statement<\/a> after the federal shutdown ended. \u201cIt also reinforced an important truth: SNAP remains the nation\u2019s largest and most effective anti-hunger program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas food banks expanded their operations to meet increased demand during the federal shutdown, Feeding Texas CEO Celia Cole previously told Community Impact.<\/p>\n

SNAP enrollees can visit the Your Texas Benefits portal<\/a> or call 800-777-7328 to check their account balance, apply for benefits and update their information, according to the HHSC.<\/p>\n

How we got here<\/p>\n

While SNAP is federally funded, benefits are administered at the state level. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered states Nov. 13<\/a> to \u201ctake immediate steps to ensure households receive their full November allotments promptly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The HHSC began sending full benefits to Texans one day later, according to its website.<\/p>\n

The federal funding package<\/a>, which President Donald Trump signed into law Nov. 12, includes over $107 billion to cover SNAP for the rest of the federal fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Budgets for most other federal programs last through Jan. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texans began receiving full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits Nov. 14, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[29855,132,134,133,29849,29848,146,20227,29856,29851,8331,4250,29847,8096,29850,7955,29846,17049,29852,5876,29853,29854],"class_list":["post-53951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-211-texas","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-celia-cole","tag-federal-food-assistance","tag-federal-government-shutdown","tag-feeding-texas","tag-how-long-was-the-federal-shutdown","tag-local-food-banks","tag-lone-star-card","tag-snap-benefits","tag-snap-payments","tag-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program","tag-texas-food-banks","tag-texas-health-and-human-services-commission","tag-texas-hhsc","tag-texas-snap","tag-texas-snap-payments","tag-usda","tag-when-will-i-get-snap-benefits","tag-your-texas-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}