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Undocumented immigrants are for federal TANF cash assistance in 2024; federal law and federal agency guidance treat undocumented people as “not qualified” for TANF, with limited statutory exceptions f...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) is a $1.9 trillion federal COVID‑19 relief law enacted on March 11, 2021, that combined direct household payments, expanded tax credits, unemployment and hea...
Senator Chuck Schumer’s 2024 budget priorities centered on directing federal funds toward , with a clear emphasis on New York’s local needs through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) disclosures ...
Federal reporting and IRS guidance in the provided sources show the federal itemized medical expense deduction floor remains 7.5% of adjusted gross income (AGI) for both tax years 2025 and 2026 (IRS T...
California had the highest number of SNAP recipients in 2023, averaging about , followed by Texas with roughly , according to the Fiscal Year 2023 SNAP State Activity Report. This finding is supported...
The COVID-19 Emergency Allotments (EA) materially increased monthly SNAP outlays from 2020 through early 2023 by providing supplemental benefits to nearly all recipients, and the federal phase-out tha...
Emergency SNAP Emergency Allotments (EAs) raised household benefits substantially in 2020: , an increase of about $95 per household, while many households received much larger boosts — in some cases ....
The core legal dispute is whether the USDA may use the SNAP contingency reserve and emergency allotments to pay regular November benefits during a federal funding lapse; courts and multistate plaintif...
Congress did not enact federal laws in 2023 that . Legislative proposals and agency rulemaking in 2023 and 2024 sought to change eligibility definitions or offer state options, but none of those measu...