Many states, including New Hampshire, distributed full SNAP payments over the weekend.

The November payments came a week late, after being paused during the ongoing government shutdown and following federal court orders last week to fully distribute food assistance. Over the weekend, the USDA ordered states to return the distributed benefits, a decision that was later blocked on Monday in federal court. The Trump administration continues to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

But on the ground in New Hampshire, the weekend’s judicial ricochet was less of an immediate concern to advocates and enrollees once EBT cards were refilled on Saturday.

“It was a big relief,” said Frederick Bisson, a SNAP enrollee from Berlin. “We were really concerned on how we were going to survive the

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