Colorado could soon join a small list of states in the nation that allow SNAP recipients to get a hot prepared meal using their benefits.

The law would affect roughly 7,500 establishments in Montana ... suitable alternatives for food packaging. A fiscal note for the bill also shows the state would fund a half-time employee to develop ...

What’s more, we’re also paying for the resulting health care costs, since most food stamp recipients are also on the taxpayer-funded Medicaid program. Taxpayers are getting hit from two sides.

crucial office that calculates the federal poverty line used to determine eligibility programs for everything from Medicaid to food stamps. The now-defunct team, which had worked out of HHS ...

April 10 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is calling on states to request waivers that would bar food ... Program, and called on all governors to submit waivers to restrict what SNAP ...

However, the food industry has resisted such moves, arguing that restrictions would hurt businesses and limit consumer choice. “Self-regulation is a smokescreen,” said Dr. Gupta.

MONTGOMERY — Two bills that would more strictly enforce eligibility for Medicaid and food stamps in Alabama passed out of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee last week amid pushback from ...

If you were expecting your Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) deposit, also known as Food Stamps, something in the process may not have gone as expected. In recent weeks, several ...

Pantries across Montana that help low-income people, including seniors, will receive less food to distribute because of recent federal cuts to a U.S. Department of Agriculture program. Last month, the ...

The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them ...