It will be at least another week before low-income Hoosier families will receive reduced – or no – food assistance benefits for November, a state agency said Wednesday.

The benefits through the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, have been in doubt amid the ongoing partial federal government shutdown, which has curtailed spending by many federal agencies.

Federal judges have ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to use contingency funds to pay at least a portion of benefits to the 42 million people who receive SNAP assistance.

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration said Wednesday that it was recalculating benefit allotments to 274,000 SNAP households in the state. Benefit changes made by federal officials will reduce the maximum amount to a

See Full Page