Several Minnesota cities and counties are giving money to help local food shelves cover growing demand after federal food assistance guidelines have flip-flopped several times in the last week.
About 440,000 Minnesotans receive benefits each month from the Supplemental Nutritional Access Program (SNAP). The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families began issuing full November benefits on Friday, amid political and legal fights over the program‘s federal funding.
However, the next day, the Department of Agriculture informed state directors that any SNAP payments were unauthorized following the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily pausing court rulings ordering the SNAP disbursement…