Four Republican states have asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to let them ban soda, energy drinks and other food items ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps, is designed to provide benefits to ...

The Trump administration wants to stop poor people from using federal food benefits for candy or soda. In an initiative ...

The U.S. Agriculture Department is demanding states comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to prevent illegal ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new measures aimed at tightening identity and immigration verification procedures for applicants to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

There is no variation in this month of May, which is about to begin, the scheduled payments in the program CalFresh will ...

SNAP is the primary way the government helps feed Americans who can't afford food, but many don't understand how the program ...

Proposals that Congress could enact this year, including through fast-track “reconciliation” legislation, would take away ...

More than $3.6 million in SNAP benefits has been stolen from nearly 8,000 Massachusetts families since mid-December, when ...

Governor Brad Little signed a bill on April 15 that bans candy and soda from being purchased with SNAP benefits in Idaho.

In 2023, Kansas had a payment error rate of more than 12 percent for SNAP applications. That surpassed the national average ...