Around 42 million low-income Americans rely on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees the program and says it is working on an ...

New federal restrictions and requirements to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)started Feb. 1. Here ...

The Agriculture Department plans to freeze federal funding for 21 states starting next week as it escalates its crackdown on possible fraud in the food stamp program, Agriculture Secretary Brooke ...

The US Department of Agriculture ordered states to stop issuing full food stamp benefits for November and to “immediately undo” any issuance of the full allotments, after a Supreme Court justice on ...

Here’s what you need to know about the federal SNAP program, which provides food assistance to nearly one in eight Americans. It could go dark on Saturday. (Author’s note: Updated to reflect recent ...

Boxes of Cheerios at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank in Providence wait to be sent off to organization's network of 137 affiliate food pantries in the Ocean State. (Photo by Alexander ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides nearly 42 million low- and no-income Americans with federal money to buy groceries. As the government shutdown dragged into its second ...