The only money 19-year-old Kaiden Bickmeyer has for food comes from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Legislation co-sponsored by Sen. Mike Lee would increase the requirements necessary to receive Supplemental Nutrition ...

In January, Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., introduced the Healthy SNAP Act, which would end food stamp purchases of sugary drinks, candy, ice cream and desserts. There is precedent for excluding certain ...

GOP lawmakers are proposing major reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), including work ...

Under Arizona’s bill, SNAP participants could be prevented from buying granola bars and some cereals, while allowing them to buy potato chips, while the Kansas legislation defines candy as something ...

The program was permanently authorized in August of 1964, under the Food Stamp Act of 1964, one of the first major legislative accomplishments of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society plan.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday that states will be granted waivers to ban soda from ...

SNAP benefits, also commonly called food stamps, act as a safety net for low-income households during personal challenges, such as losing a job or going through a national economic crisis.

The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a federal program that is part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

SNAP, originally known as the Food Stamp Program, is designed to provide ... as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. But those federal expansions expired at the end of February ...

In January, Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Okla., introduced the Healthy SNAP Act, which would end food stamp purchases of sugary drinks, candy, ice cream and desserts. There is precedent for ...