Louisiana residents enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program can no longer use their benefits to buy soft drinks, energy drinks or candy starting Wednesday, as the state launches a tw ...

Food stamp recipients are now receiving their November benefits, but a growing swath of enrollees may soon lose their vital food assistance completely. At the same time as the government shutdown ...

After weeks of uncertainty, millions of Americans will soon start receiving federal nutrition assistance benefits again, after President Trump on Wednesday night signed a bill passed by Congress to ...

The current federal government shutdown, which has set the record for the longest, has also interrupted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits. As Washington lawmakers work on ...

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(NEXSTAR) – It’s official: The federal government will not send out November SNAP benefits if the shutdown continues into the weekend. While some states are scrambling to fund some form of continued ...

(NEXSTAR) – The federal government may be shut down, but that didn’t stop changes to SNAP benefits from kicking in on the first of the month, which is also the start of the fiscal year. Every October, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — People in Louisiana participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will no longer be able to buy certain food items sold at stores using ...

Today, at the direction of President Donald J. Trump, the Administration is taking the biggest step in more than 30 years to protect taxpayer-funded benefits for American citizens — NOT illegal aliens ...