RALEIGH (News Release) – The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services received notice Friday afternoon that the United States Department of Agriculture will fully fund November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. While NCDHHS works with federal partners to get the remainder of November processed, beneficiaries could see the additional funds on their EBT cards possibly as soon as this weekend. Partial payments were loaded onto EBT cards Friday morning for more than 586,000 households that rely on SNAP in North Carolina.

NCDHHS is working as quickly as possible to get benefits out to North Carolinians. On Friday, following initial direction from the USDA to issue November benefits at a 35% reduction of maximum allotments, households that normally receive

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