EUGENE, Ore. (CN) — A federal judge on Monday extended the grace period for states to comply with new guidance that restricts food stamp benefits to certain non-U.S. citizen groups, finding that competing guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture hindered states’ ability to implement the changes.
On Oct. 31, the USDA issued new guidance detailing changes in eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP. Those changes both narrowed the eligibility for refugees, asylum recipients and other noncitizen groups admitted to the country through humanitarian programs and “simultaneously created a set of massive penalties tied to state error rates in issuing payments to SNAP beneficiaries,” according to the plaintiff states.
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