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Over half of New York City food stamp applicants are forced to wait for their benefits to arrive as staff at the understaffed Human Resources Administration fail to keep pace…

ByDavid Brand 4Comments

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Dec 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness

Over Half of NYC’s Food Stamp Applicants Left Waiting as Staffing Shortage Deepens

The Human Resources Administration (HRA) is promptly processing just 46.3 percent of applications for SNAP benefits, commonly known as food stamps, the agency told councilmembers at a committee hearing on…

ByDavid Brand

ByMariam Hydara 7Comments

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Nov 2022

Economy Government

40% of NYC Food Stamp Applicants Left Waiting for Benefits, Data Shows

The city’s Human Resources Administration (HRA) failed to promptly process four of every 10 applications for the benefits during fiscal year 2022, when the rate of timely processing plummeted from…

ByDavid Brand 6Comments

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Dec 2021

Economy Government

Heightened Food Insecurity in NYC Likely to Persist Long After Pandemic Wanes, Experts Say

The pandemic worsened the hunger crisis for many New Yorkers, though more severe impacts were staved off by COVID relief programs. But need is expected to rise again, as government…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 1Comment

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Mar 2021

Economy Health Podcasts

COVID-19’s Unrelenting Impact on Hunger in New York City

A top nutrition advocate says the pandemic exacerbated a significant hunger crisis in the city. And a year later, it is still exacerbating it—although the federal stimulus package will deliver…

ByJarrett Murphy 2Comments

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Nov 2020

Economy Government Health

Big Response, Huge Need: NYC’s Welfare System Amid COVID-19

The city’s social safety net has stretched to address the economic disaster created by the pandemic. It might have further to go.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 2020

Government

Septuagenarians Running for President Differ on Key Issues for Older New Yorkers

On Social Security, healthcare, housing and food support, Joe Biden and Donald Trump offer different visions to older New Yorkers.

ByGail Robinson 1Comment

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Oct 2019

Government

NYC’s Immigrant Seniors Chilled by Trump’s Public Charge Crackdown

New York City’s seniors are already underutilizing public benefits available to them. But for non-citizen seniors, that reluctance has grown in the past year, a result of alarm from the…

ByRoshan Abraham 1Comment

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Mar 2019

Economy

Federal Shutdown Created Unprecedented Gap at Low-Income Dinner Tables

‘If these higher benefits were eaten up immediately, it’s not like low-income people are spending it on caviar or something. They are struggling just to survive.’

ByClarissa Sosin 2Comments

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Nov 2018

Economy

Congress’s Tinkering With SNAP Could Help Some People a Little, Hurt Others Deeply

The House is considering tinkering with how the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program calculates benefits.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

As NYC’s Food Stamp Crisis Worsens, State Agency Withholds Relief