RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two federal judges ruled on Friday that the Trump Administration must continue to fund SNAP benefits , but recipients are no closer to learning when accounts will be replenished.

"It's a welcome decision. The case I think is open and shut," said Bobby Kogan, the Senior Director of Federal Budget Policy at the Center for American Progress.

"It's simply cruel to deny (recipients) the benefits that they're actually legally entitled to as some sort of political pawn in the shutdown fight," said Kogan.

Food banks had previously warned of increasing need as a result of the shutdown and in anticipation of cuts to SNAP.

"For every one meal that food banks are able to deliver, SNAP is able to deliver nine. Volunteerism is phenomenal. I think you have a civic duty to h

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