New federal rules are tightening who can keep food assistance, but the law still leaves room for people to protect their benefits if they understand the fine print. I want to walk through how the ...

This year’s historic government shutdown put a spotlight on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP - the means by which millions of Americans facing food insecurity put food on the ...

Fruits and vegetables are stacked inside of carboard boxes, Dec. 6, 2021. The record-breaking government shutdown has come to an end, but what remains are the ripple effects that played out over those ...

An end to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history could restore food assistance for 42 million Americans. Recent court rulings have created confusion over whether states could ...

The House of Representatives is set to vote on a funding package to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The shutdown has halted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Before she applied for food assistance through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Santa Clara University student Kaylee Jensen remembers the anxiety she felt when thinking about ...

The new year is always a good time to reset your budget, but how you do so will also depend on any adjustments to your income or your expenses. As of Oct. 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

The federal government is reopening, but there’s still uncertainty about when one of the most far-reaching impacts of the closure will be resolved and all 42 million Americans who receive SNAP food ...

A Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to withhold full payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has left beneficiaries and state officials in our region ...

A government shutdown has halted November SNAP benefit payments for millions of Americans. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to make full payments, but the Justice Department has ...

More than half a million low-income Hoosiers on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Indiana will have to reapply for benefits, a more intense, time-consuming and costly process ...

While headlines often spotlight immigrant use of government benefits, data shows non-citizens account for a small fraction of SNAP recipients and consume fewer welfare dollars per person than ...