The government has introduced two bipartisan bills to give states the flexibility to use contracted support to help process ...

The date recipients get their monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits depends on the state they live in.

that will affect SNAP recipients as laws change under the Trump administration. Starting Feb. 1, some people aged 18 to 64 without dependents under 14 will be required to work or volunteer at least 80 ...

As changes to federal food stamp benefits go into effect, food pantry users and nonprofits worry that food insecurity will only get worse.

The state of Tennessee acknowledges there are problems with how it runs the SNAP food stamps program, and a special mediator ...

New York is joining the small group of states switching to chip-and-pin cards to evade skimming devices that siphon money for ...

Massachusetts has the highest rate in New England of households paying more than half their income on housing. When they do, ...

Hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents are expected to be pushed out of the federal food assistance program for people ...

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With the recent U.S. government shut down, federal delays in dispersing SNAP benefits (called CalFresh in California) in ...

Food prices are rising faster than many fixed incomes, and for older Americans that gap often shows up in the refrigerator.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey is asking lawmakers to increase funding for the federal food assistance program SNAP by $13.5 million ...