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While the federal government has officially reopened, local SNAP recipients had to navigate empty refrigerators and cabinets for more than a week. Now, work requirements imposed by the Trump administration…

ByDaniel Parra 7Comments

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Oct 2025

Government Health Housing and Homelessness Immigration Labor Resources

SNAP Is Set To Be Frozen in November. Here’s What New Yorkers Need to Know.

The federal government shutdown and new work requirements will throw New York’s food stamps program into chaos, New York Focus reports.

ByJie Jenny Zou, New York Focus 7Comments

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Oct 2025

Economy Featured Government Health Housing and Homelessness In Depth Investigations NYCHA

More Than $14 Million in SNAP Benefits Have Been Stolen From New Yorkers After Reimbursement Program’s End

This year alone, thousands of low-income New Yorkers have had benefits stolen from their EBT cards, which allow them to buy food at certain stores. “It was very hard,” one…

ByDaniel Parra 15Comments

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Oct 2025

Government Health Housing and Homelessness

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.

ByJie Jenny Zou, New York Focus 1Comment

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Jun 2025

Economy Government Health Housing and Homelessness Politics

SNAP Under Attack: What Federal Cuts to Food Aid Would Mean for NYC

“Food and housing are absolutely related,” NYC Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park tells City Limits. “When people are in a choice between paying for food or paying…

ByMariana De Jesús-Szendrey 16Comments

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Dec 2024

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

Red Hook Residents See Rash of Stolen Food Stamps, As Reimbursement Funds Expire

A provision to extend the federal refund program for victims of SNAP theft was tucked into a massive Congressional spending bill that failed to pass, leaving future reimbursements uncertain. “They…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByTatyana Turner 8Comments

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Sep 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Labor

Cash Assistance Recipients Navigate Revived Work Requirements, As City Processing Times Tick Up

Advocates worry that the reinstated rules will inevitably lead to some New Yorkers losing the aid they rely on to make ends meet, especially in the face of a steep…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByAnastasia Tomkin 4Comments

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Mar 2024

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness

City Speeds Up Benefits Processing, But Cash Aid Denials Remain High

New data suggests that the Department of Social Services is bouncing back from historically low processing rates for public benefits, though cash aid applications are being denied more frequently than…

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Feb 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness

Scenes From Closing Day at a Bronx Benefits Center

Friday marked the final day of operations at 1365 Jerome Ave. in Mount Eden, where Human Resources Administration staff helped New Yorkers apply for food, Medicaid and cash assistance.

ByEmma Whitford 0Comments

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Jan 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness

NYC Still Slow To Process Most Food Stamp, Cash Aid Applications

The first four months of Fiscal Year 2024 saw timely processing of just 14.3 percent of cash assistance applications—a new low—and 41.6 percent of SNAP applications. Delays can have serious consequences…

ByEmma Whitford 2Comments

‘Not a Good Feeling’: How Delayed SNAP Benefits Impacted New Yorkers

SNAP Is Set To Be Frozen in November. Here’s What New Yorkers Need to Know.

More Than $14 Million in SNAP Benefits Have Been Stolen From New Yorkers After Reimbursement Program’s End

Surprise Trump Move Will Upend New York Food Stamps

Red Hook Residents See Rash of Stolen Food Stamps, As Reimbursement Funds Expire

Cash Assistance Recipients Navigate Revived Work Requirements, As City Processing Times Tick Up

City Speeds Up Benefits Processing, But Cash Aid Denials Remain High

NYC Still Slow To Process Most Food Stamp, Cash Aid Applications

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