The action is simple: The administration is finally allowing states to restrict the purchase of soda, sugary snacks and other junk food with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more ...

The federal regulations go into effect on March 1 and require people who were previously exempt to prove they've worked 80 ...

Chevrier's bill was introduced less than two months after a similar policy took effect in Utah barring SNAP recipients from ...

The billions spent on the state’s wildly condemned right-to-shelter law triggered SNAP fraud so widespread it even left new migrants with empty EBT cards, a food stamp official tells the ...

Kansas lawmakers are threatening to withhold summer food assistance for children, while also pushing for a more robust snack ...

Starting Sunday, Feb. 15, Oklahoma will start banning the purchase of certain items with SNAP funds. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt submitted a request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees ...

President Trump signed a bill that made his 2019 tax cuts permanent and cut SNAP funding by an estimated $186 billion through 2034. The new law makes it more difficult to qualify for SNAP benefits by ...

New York is joining the small group of states switching to chip-and-pin cards to evade skimming devices that siphon money for food from low-income people. By Sarah Maslin Nir One morning last week, ...

Despite her last-ditch effort to avoid prison Thursday, Amanda Cunningham’s pleas scored zero points with Midland County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Carras. Cunningham was sentenced to 22 months to 15 ...

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from withholding tens of millions of dollars in funding for Minnesota’s food stamp program amid widespread claims of fraud.

Critics of the restrictions are concerned with the bouts of confusion, contingent on the state with some feeling it could drive the numbers down of people who participate in the program. As of Jan. 1, ...

SALEM — Residents who receive food stamps in Baker, Umatilla, Morrow and Wallowa counties have until Jan. 16 to apply for replacement benefits if they had food that spoiled due to a power outage on ...