SNAP food benefits are flowing again after a pause during the federal government shutdown. But the clock is about to start on a policy that imposes work requirements on more beneficiaries.

The latest overhaul, part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, revises work requirements and alters who is exempt from them.

Just as SNAP benefits were reinstated for millions of Americans following the reopening of the federal government, many are now set to permanently lose them.

The first ever disruption to the nation's largest anti-hunger program came as a shock. It's shaken trust in the program for some and stoked concern that it could happen again.

N ew York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday he hopes to meet soon with President Donald Trump to discuss the city’s affordability crisis, including threats to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, signaling a willingness to work with the White House despite months of political clashes.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the numbers came from SNAP recipient data from 29 "Red" states.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel held a roundtable with the Michigan League for Public Policy on Tuesday afternoon to discuss food security, specifically impacts of the lapse of SNAP during the federal government shutdown and the continuing attacks on the food aid program.

But in real life, SNAP fraud is quite rare. According to a 2018 report by the Congressional Research Service, for every 10,000 households participating in SNAP, about 14 had a SNAP recipient who got investigated and determined to have committed fraud.