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

Cuts to SNAP would be detrimental to the emergency food system in Illinois, including food pantries and food banks.

In Illinois, the problem is more pronounced. In 2000, 6.8% of Illinoisans were on SNAP. Today, 15.1% of Illinoisans are on ...

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

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a memorandum to all state agencies administering the Supplemental Nutrition ...

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

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

Special agents with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Office of Inspector General, have arrested a Beaufort ...

The Healthy SNAP Act would exclude soft drinks, candy, ice cream and prepared desserts from being bought with SNAP benefits.

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Brooke Rollins, has announced that the Trump administration will allow states to ban ...

MEFAP, created in 1995, supplies nearly one-third of the food purchased and distributed by the Food Bank Coalition of ...