The Nevada Division of Social Services on Wednesday confirmed it has delivered approximately $29 million in food assistance benefits to the EBT cards of over 196,000 households.

The amount represents roughly a third of the $90 million the federal government normally provides Nevadans each month through its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP. The distribution comes after two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use existing emergency reserves to partially pay out November benefits, which were supposed to start going out on Saturday, according to Nevada Current .

A Nevada state administrator confirmed the distributions were made early Wednesday. Some SNAP recipients won’t receive any benefits and many will receive less than 50% of what they are

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