This story was originally produced by the Concord Monitor. NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative .

A mist of uncertainty hung over the state’s food pantries when Elsy Cipriani toured them this summer.

Congress had just passed President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation bill into law, introducing changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that downshifted some costs from the federal government to state governments and restricted the program’s eligibility requirements.

The cost-sharing changes came with discreet, foreseeable deadlines. But states had a period of 120 days, ending on Nov. 1, to implement eligibility changes that expand the work requirement to able-bodied adults up until the age of 65 and exclude man

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