More Information on EBT From Humboldt Co.: CalFresh benefits for November currently being issued
Press release from Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services:
After delays and many unknowns during the federal government shutdown, CalFresh recipients started receiving their November benefits, Thursday, Nov. 6. This move followed an order from a federal judge earlier in the day who directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find enough money to restore full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday, Nov. 7.
While this situation continues to be fluid, Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services Director Connie Beck said Friday morning, with the changing information and unknowns, finding out benefits started being issued last night was a “wonderful surprise” and a relief for the more than 30,000 county residents who receive CalFresh.
“In this trying time, staff and our community have really stepped up,” she said. “Not only is DHHS is the midst of hosting our own county employee food drive, but numerous local restaurants, businesses and other community residents are doing the same. I am proud to be a part of this community and very proud of this department and our staff.”
According to a news release from California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued Thursday evening, “Following two lawsuits filed by California and other states and a coalition of others, California families are beginning to see their full SNAP benefits restored on their EBT cards. Earlier today, a court ordered the Trump administration to immediately issue 100% of funding for 5.5 million California SNAP recipients. Following the regular process for providing CalFresh benefits, benefits are now beginning to be available on recipients’ cards so that families can again access the food they need.”
While this is subject to change, it means that households that would normally receive their full benefits between Nov. 1 and 7, are on track to have their full benefits available by Friday, and households that would normally receive their full benefits between Nov. 8 and 10, are on track to have their full benefits available as normal, an email from the California Welfare Directors Association stated. Households determined to be newly eligible for November are also on track to receive full benefits.
In Humboldt County, approximately 22% of county residents receive CalFresh benefits which equates to between $5.8 and $6 million a month. These benefits not only supplement the food budgets of elderly community residents, families with children and other individuals, there are many businesses in the county that accept EBT cards and rely on this income as well.
Families that receive benefits through the WIC (Women, Infants & Children) program, can expect to continue receiving them through November, despite the shutdown.
For more information about your CalFresh benefits, visit BenefitsCal.com or call DHHS’s Social Services Call Center at 1-877-410-8809.
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Glad to hear they are getting their benefits but there is dark clouds on the horizon. Hopefully the courts will do the right thing.
Trump administration seeks emergency stay of court’s order to fund SNAP
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/07/trump-admin-asks-for-emergency-stay-of-lower-courts-order-to-fund-snap-00641732
“After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.”
“Her order will remain in place until 48 hours after the appeals court rules, giving the administration time to return to the Supreme Court if the appeals court refuses to step in.”
https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-government-shutdown-trump-a807e9f0c0a7213e203c074553dc1f9b
Trump’s administration told the Supreme Court that the fast-acting states were “trying to seize what they could of the agency’s finite set of remaining funds, before any appeal could even be filed, and to the detriment of other States’ allotments.”
“Once those billions are out the door, there is no ready mechanism for the government to recover those funds,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the court filing.
Officials in California, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington state also said they moved quickly to issue full SNAP benefits Friday, while other states said they expected full benefits to arrive over the weekend or early next week. Still others said they were waiting for further federal guidance.
–Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments | PBS News
If you have your full benefits spend them ASAP.
Hate to say it, but it seems at least as likely this was due to incompetence as intent. They might have not known they were supposed to close the spigot.
Speaking as a Taxpayer, I think a “thank you” is due. Maybe a card on Fathers’ Day, or something. I know money’s tight, but just say something nice once in a while about those whose taxes buy your food.
I had no idea I was feeding so many people until I stopped for a couple days, then all I heard was complaining.
And thank God for your good fortune.
From comments like this, some people seem to believe getting up five days a week to labor in a place that might not be pleasant is a happy random accident for which you are required to be grateful. Bad things can happen to make that impossible sometimes but seeing that over 50% of all age eligible people are working and 80% of those are working full time, it is not bad luck that is the problem.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4756860-full-time-part-time-employment-january-2025
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-population-ratio.htm
Thank you for your yearly $36 contribution as a tax payer so that others may eat. It’s appreciated, we’re so grateful and just wanted you to know. May your good fortune continue.
Where did you get that? At least per taxpayer I got closer to $960 as an average. In all fairness you may know what he pays in taxes.
How do you get a down vote for using math?
It’s RHBB…
Truth gets downvoted all the time…
Heres some more truth…
Not a good day to go to WinCo today…
The check out line literally went all the way back to the produce section…
Tomorrow will be extra special too, I would wager…
I doubt any one of them was actually thankful for Trump recharging their free lunch meal and grocery cards…
Now if the Democrats would just finally vote to reopen the government, Instead of continuing to sabotage it, things could begin to start returning to normal…
It was actually the courts that forced Trump to do it, and he is still appealing it, only some states have started making payments.
As far as opening the Government that is up to the Republicans. An offer was made by the Democrats so it is in the Republicans ball court now.
Return to normal? God I hope not.
It doesn’t matter…
Trump did it…
Offer smoffer…
That’s meaningless…
It’s the Democrats that need to vote in favor of opening the government, in order to open it…
The Democrats aren’t in the driver’s seat…
They don’t call the shots…
They don’t get to call the shots…
Need I remind you that the Democrats lost the election, the House, and the Senate…
What makes you think that it’s the Democrats that should be in control of our government…???
They shouldn’t get whatever they want, just because they stubbornly and obstinately refuse to budge and are willing to harm the American People if they don’t get it…
They should just simply cooperate and comply and open the government at least until they win a few more elections…
But maybe you think that type of uncooperative bullshit is totally cool…???
So if someone offers you a bad deal, it’s your fault if you don’t take it? Gotcha…
First of all, you have insulted me by your implication which singles me out as “one of the…”… ..”…lying commenters”…
As far as Trump’s opposition to being extorted, even judicially…
So fucking what..
I’m fully aware of that…
Big fucking deal…
It doesn’t matter one whit if he opposed it, and sued, as he properly should have for being extorted by the shameless Democrat judicially cronies that are politically aligned with and conspiratorially complicit with, the Democrat Senators that are shamelessly keeping the government shut down, extorting President Trump, his Administration, and our Nation…
Trump is the one that funded SNAP, even if Trump being forced to do it was unjust…
…regardless of whether you can truly admit it, or not…
He followed the law, even if the law was wrong and unjust…
That court meddled in an ongoing Senate dispute, clearly overstepping their jurisdictional bounds…
That shows that Trump is abiding by the law….
Even if and as the stupid court that forced him to submit to Democrat’s extortion made an idiotic, politically partisan, biased decision…
And yes, the US Supreme Court has quite honorably and very properly stayed the lower court’s stupid ass decision that forced Trump to submit to the Schcumbag Schmuck Democrats’ bloody SNAP extortion..
(It was a SNAP judgement…)
What ANY SELF RESPECTING lower court should have judiciously done, is to have IMMEDIATELY reprimanded and thoroughly admonished any and all Democrats that have their collective heads so far up their collective asses to have actually conspiratorially sued Trump to do what they are actually complicit in actively preventing from happening by those dumb ass Senate Democrats associates of theirs continuing to actually vote against opening the government as many as 14 times or possibly eventually even more…
The Democrats are actually causing a problem, and then they are actually suing Trump to solve it…???
WTAF…???
That’s morally and ethically decrepit…
Any supreme court judges in their right minds, state or federal, should promptly and firmly judicially metaphorically “back hand” any such political stunts that are obviously trying to manipulate the court in such a perverse politically manipulative travesty of justice, by immediately tossing such judiciously backwards and wrongheaded nonsense right out of their courtroom…
No plaintiffs should ever even be judicially considered for any kind of relief for damages, when those plaintiffs are directly conspiring and/or complicit with the guilty party responsible for inflicting the very damages that the plaintiffs are seeking judicial relief from…
Those complicit, Democrat co conspirator plaintiffs, in my opinion, should be immediately punished and sanctioned for such bogus unnecessary Politically grandstanding litigation…
Even disbarred, IMO…
It’s just more extortion and coercion, by the blackmailing Democrats, using their equally extortive and coercive crony judiciary, being used maliciously and malignantly against the duly elected Trump Administration, in the midst of ongoing Senate negotiations…
UNACCEPTABLE…
It would be pretequisitely necessary to first have anyone”s head firmly and irretrievably lodged completely up one’s own ass, in order for anyone and everyone so irreparably thus blinded, to not have been quite easily able to have already CLEARLY seen it for what the Democrat’s political Senate stunt truly was, and what it truly is, long, long ago…
Don’t call me, one of the lying commenters”
Because I am definitely not “uninformed”…
What I am also not, is likewise brainwashed by Democrats, their dirty, self serving political stunts, nor by their lame Liberal mainstream media…
But, you do you…
Gibberish
Wow. $36 for just EBT? I heard it was $36 for all social safety net programs… Medicaid, HUD, WIC… all of ‘em.
Pennies from heaven. Thank you for your generosity!
😆
You heard wrong. And that doesn’t surprise me one bit.
I’m willing to accept that but you have to at least back it up with more than ” I heard.”
Someone is not very informed on the amount that those who don’t or won’t take from those who will and do…
So why do you think the hard working taxpayers owe you anything? They don’t. These folks donate well beyond what you consider scraps. Well beyond what almost all loudmouth Democrats do or will ever contribute. The Democrats believe in the collective. The collective siphons off 90% to pay for the loudmouths before it gets to the needy. So, no. It’s not your money. Advice, get a job, or five jobs.
You won’t get a “thank you”. You’ll just get more of your wages stolen and sarcasm from those who won’t and don’t earn wages. (or choose to work for wages that are not livable.)
One thing about the government being able to steal from its citizens so easily is that they just keep stealing incrementally more.
Keep drinking the fdcNo5 redkkkoolaid.
‘Choose to’???
Is there a government that doesn’t “steal” from its citizens? Maybe South Sudan? I’m sure you’d be welcome there.
In our country, ANYONE settling for less than a livable wage, when anyone with common sense and a little heart, can increase their skill set to attain a livable wage. The only thing holding people in poverty is themselves.
Any of my wages taken to give to another is theft. The only viable thing taxes can be used for are to provide for the common defense and to promote the general welfare, (look it up, that’s not a social construct in the time the Constitution was written).
Don’t food stamps come under promoting the general welfare?
I see you have not gotten the memo. At least 25% of foodstamp recipients ARE HARDWORKING TAXPAYERS.the rest are CHILDREN, ELDERLY & DISABED
I don’t care who they are. They’re stealing almost $4000 per year from me. Elderly have children and family who can and should take care of them. Children have parents and family who can and should take care of them. Disabled people have family that can and should take care of them.
”Hardworking taxpayers” aren’t working hard enough if they need to mooch off of their fellow citizens.
Stealing my money makes it harder for me to get the returns I will need to be self-sufficient in retirement. I really don’t expect Social Security to be solvent by the time I retire, thanks to the mooching boomers who have taken from their fellow citizens for decades and protested to try and destroy our republic while on the government dole.
I wonder how Jesus would reply to you.
What do you think?
Link please, evidence please…
“The average American pays $36 in taxes each year to fund food stamps. That same American pays $700 in taxes each year for corporate subsidies.” – Factually.co, Fact Check: Food Stamps vs. Corporate Subsidies
“Corporate welfare costs taxpayers roughly $352 billion annually, including direct subsidies, loan guarantees, and targeted tax breaks.” – Cato Institute, Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget (2023)
Who are the largest subsidized corporations
Top Subsidized Corporations (2025)
You didn’t link to the Cato article but it was easy to find and it title says a lot.- https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/corporate-welfare-federal-budget-0#president-bidens-subsidy-explosion
“Recently, corporate welfare soared with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Yet Biden signed into law three huge bills providing hundreds of billions of dollars of special-interest tax breaks and spending subsidies to businesses. He said, “I also want to end tax breaks for Big Pharma, Big Oil,” but he gave subsidies to Big Semiconductor, Big Wind, Big Solar, Big Battery, Big Automaker, and Big Utility.”
This is not a partisan issue, and I appreciate you bringing that to light. I wasn’t using it as a direct comparison, but rather as food for thought about where our tax dollars go and who the true “deadbeats” are. I’m angry that my tax dollars go to large corporations like Amazon, whose significant percentage of employees earn so little that they must rely on social programs. I’m upset that people aren’t paid a living wage. I am very comfortable with my tax dollars feeding children and the elderly, I’m happy to do that. I’m happy to continue funding social security and healthcare as well. Ending corporate subsidies would lead to greater innovation and fairness, and continuing them only perpetuates inequality and stagnation by allowing corporations to profit while workers and taxpayers shoulder the burden. It’s shortsighted to blame the victims of a rigged system.
Even the article you quote says it’s a useless comparison- “the two numbers cannot be reliably compared” and “The specific claim in its headline form is misleading: the $36 SNAP figure reflects a dated per-taxpayer calculation and can be defensible only with precise qualifiers, while the $700 corporate-subsidy figure lacks consistent documentary support among the supplied sources and is contradicted by other estimates that are both larger and smaller depending on definitions and time frames.”
But even then quoting figures for one part of the “safety net” programs while lumping all corporate welfare together is disingenuous. “About 7 percent (or $476 billion) of the 2024 federal budget supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to individuals and families facing hardship.” Which exceeds your figure for “corporate welfare” by a good bit. And it excludes quite a bit to get that.
https://factually.co/fact-checks/finance/per-person-cost-food-stamps-vs-corporate-subsidies-f2289a
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/where-do-our-federal-tax-dollars-go