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The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a court filing late Wednesday that it caught an error in its earlier plan to reduce the maximum benefit by half and said that beneficiaries would instead get up to 65% of their usual assistance.
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The Trump administration said last month that it would not pay benefits at all for November because of the federal shutdown.
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