Gov. Maura Healey’s administration reported an additional $42 million in spending on the emergency assistance shelter system in the span of two weeks in December, according to a report filed Tuesday with the Legislature’s budget writing committees.

The financial details are spelled out in a document that also sheds light on a state-run list for families with children and pregnant people waiting for shelter placement, indicating that nearly 1,400 families have applied for shelter since the system reached Healey’s self-imposed capacity limit of 7,500 families.

Spending on the emergency assistance shelter system — which temporarily houses local and migrant families pursuant to a decades-old right-to-shelter law — covers shelter services, National Guard activations, assessment sites, intake centers, and temporary shelters, according to the report.

In its first report released two weeks ago, state officials said Massachusetts had spent a total of $205 million on the emergency assistance housing program as of Dec. 12. That figure jumped to $247 million as of Dec. 28, according to the document released Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the Executive Office of Administration and Finance said the increase is largely driven by the timing of bill payments and contracts and does not represent a “burn rate” of $42 million every two weeks.

The state typically pays service providers and vendors on a monthly basis and spending to-date “is largely reflective of costs through November,” the report said. Invoices for November and December 2023 “are currently being received and processed,” the document said.

The first shelter report released two weeks ago showed Healey expects to spend $915 million on emergency shelters in fiscal year 2025 and proposed plugging a $224 million budget gap this fiscal year with surplus revenues from the pandemic, a move local Republicans expressed hesitancy with.

The shelter system hit the 7,500 family limit on Nov. 10 and since then, 1,393 families have applied for emergency shelter above the capacity, though not all were deemed eligible and placed on the waitlist, according to the report.

The waitlist for shelter placement sat at 391 as of Dec. 28, according to the report.

Families on the waitlist are provided with transportation to locations within Massachusetts of “their choosing” and information on additional state resources and assistance in finding housing, the report said.

“For example, (the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities) administers the HomeBASE program, which can provide eligible homeless families with help paying first/last month’s rent and security deposits, moving expenses, stipends to help with ongoing housing costs, and other costs that can help families stabilize an existing housing situation or stably rehouse,” the report said.

Waitlisted families are also offered overnight shelter at state-run overflow sites in Quincy, Revere, and Cambridge, the latter of which opened late last month in a former courthouse that also houses the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds.

Only nine more families entered the emergency shelter system as migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers as of Dec. 28, according to the report. There were a total of 3,525 families — or less than half the total amount — who fit those three categories in the system as of the same date, the report said.

Any newly-arrived migrant family with children or pregnant person who are deemed eligible for emergency shelter were lawfully allowed into the United States by the federal government and are not considered “illegal.”

The report also shows that 2,713 individuals in the emergency shelter system who are migrants, refugees, or asylum seekers now have work authorizations, a jump of 1,900 from the last report driven primarily by two clinics hosted in part by the Department of Homeland Security.

Healey has stressed multiple times that prompt access to work authorizations and the ability to find employment are key factors in moving families out of emergency shelter and into more permanent housing solutions.

“In total, the work authorization clinics supported 2,910 individuals, completed 1,951 biometrics with (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), vaccinated 1,031 adults and children, and facilitated 734 visits to MassHire stations,” the report said of two clinics held Nov. 13-17 and Nov. 27-30.