SNAP food-choice waivers, or SNAP Food Restriction waivers, allow states to restrict beneficiaries from using benefits to ...

As the government shutdown halts federal funding, more than 40 million Americans who rely on SNAP benefits could temporarily lose access to grocery assistance starting November 1. Instacart announced ...

Grocery and food delivery apps are stepping in as the federal government fails to reinstate food assistance for millions of Americans amid the government shutdown. DoorDash and Instacart — two of the ...

Changes are coming to the foods that families can buy using their SNAP benefits in the new year. Navy delivers report to Hegseth on potential punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video ...

Republicans expanded SNAP work requirements, tightened eligibility, and shifted more administrative costs to the states.

Erika D. Smith is a politics and policy columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. She is a former Los Angeles Times columnist and Sacramento Bee editorial board member. During this fall’s government shutdown, ...

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst has introduced legislation aimed at changing how some recipients use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to buy prepared meals. SNAP currently serves more ...

The Trump administration has demanded that states turn over data on individual SNAP recipients including Social Security ...

In August 2025, Takara Gamble, a 28-year-old in Texas, began receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. She doesn’t have a car, so most of her paychecks go towards paying for ...

To the lawmakers in Congress who seem to be stuck on Reagan-era myths about the people who rely on food stamps, here’s an idea: Let’s reframe the idea of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ...

Shortly before the pause on federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits was enacted on Sunday, the TikToks began cropping up: In one video, a Black woman is in a home full of ...