Hawaii, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia and Tennessee are joining 12 other states in adding waivers that will ...

(Gray News) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved waivers for 18 states that ban the use of SNAP benefits to buy ...

Gov. Jeff Landry says nearly 800,000 elderly, disabled, and child SNAP recipients in Louisiana will receive uninterrupted ...

Under the newly approved waivers, specific categories of food will no longer be eligible for purchase with SNAP.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps low-income households afford food, with recipients using benefits at many food retailers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry announced that Louisiana SNAP recipients are getting their full federal benefits for November, with some getting extra assistance administered by ...

With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to millions of people, though it still could take up to a ...

I can't say for sure, but I think the combination of thousands of federal employees not getting paychecks and thousands more not eating enough were the two reasons the 2025 shutdown ended. Gov. Jeff ...

In some states, the resolution to issues with SNAP payments has come more in the form of a trickle than a tidal wave of ...