President Donald Trump’s administration told states they must “immediately undo” any steps taken to provide full food stamp benefits in a late-night Saturday memo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“To the extent State sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized,” Patrick Penn, the deputy under secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, wrote. Instead, states must provide 65 percent of the maximum benefit allotments.

The memo threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not “comply” quickly with the government’s new orders, the latest in a series of legal battles over the nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), thrown into uncertainty due to the extended federal government shutdown.

On Friday, Gov. Maura Healey’s office said that she’d ordered SNAP recipients to receive full November benefits after a federal judge ordered the federal government to make the funds available.

Later that day, however, the Supreme Court intervened in the case and granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to hold off on payments until the appeals court could weigh in.

On Saturday afternoon, the Healey administration said that SNAP households who missed payments last week had “full SNAP immediately available on their EBT cards.”

It’s unclear how the Trump administration’s latest directive will impact SNAP benefits in Massachusetts.

A spokesperson for the governor did not immediately return a request for comment Sunday morning.

About 1.1 million Bay State residents depend on the food assistance program. Nearly a third are children, Healey said last month.

In Massachusetts, 32% of SNAP recipients are children, 31% are people with disabilities and 26% are senior citizens, according to the Healey administration.

Nationally, about 1 in 8 Americans depend on SNAP benefits to spend at grocery stores and farmers’ markets.

On Friday, some states began issuing full monthly SNAP benefits to people, a day after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to provide the funds.

But Friday night, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily paused that judicial order to give an appeals court in Boston time to decide whether to issue a more lasting halt. Jackson acted because she handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.

The high court’s order didn’t stop payment distribution in at least some states, but millions of other Americans who depend on SNAP remain in limbo.

Some SNAP beneficiaries are seeing money on their electronic transfer cards depending on where they live.

In Hawaii, Oregon and Wisconsin, officials worked quickly after a judge ordered full benefit payments Thursday to instruct their EBT providers to process the full payments.

“We moved with haste once we verified everything,” Joseph Campos II, deputy director of Hawaii’s Department of Human Services, told The Associated Press.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat, said state employees “worked through the night” to issue full November benefits.

Officials in California, Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington also confirmed that some SNAP recipients were issued their full November payments on Friday.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, said more than 250,000 households that missed their regular monthly SNAP payment during the first week of November received their full amount on Friday. The remaining beneficiaries would receive their November funds on their regularly scheduled dates later this month — if distribution does not remain blocked by legal challenges.

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, said that state’s SNAP recipients had received full November benefits as of Saturday afternoon, while Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, also a Democrat, said half a million recipients in her state got their benefits after a previously scheduled payment went out Saturday morning. A half a million more residents there are supposed to get their benefits next week.

Officials in Colorado said Saturday that about 32,000 recipients had received their full monthly benefits before the Supreme Court’s order came down. More than 560,000 additional recipients were still waiting.

In Rhode Island, about 79,000 households received their full benefits, Gov. Dan McKee, a Democrat said, adding that his team is “working through the weekend” to help address what he called “a crisis for families.”

The Trump administration said in a legal filing with the Supreme Court that “there is no ready mechanism for the government to recover those funds” that already have been distributed.

Because of the federal government shutdown, the Trump administration originally had said SNAP benefits would not be available in November. After two judges ruled the administration could not skip November’s benefits entirely, the administration said it would use an emergency reserve fund containing more than $4.6 billion to provide partial benefits in November.

A judge on Thursday said that wasn’t good enough, and ordered other funds to be used to make the full monthly payment. The Trump administration appealed, asking a higher court to suspend any orders that require it to spend more money than is available in the contingency fund. That is what led to Jackson’s temporary hold issued late Friday.