The new rules have introduced age-based changes to SNAP work requirements. Able-bodied adults between the ages of 55 and 64 ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) remains one of the most widely used federal programs in the United ...

These changes mark the most substantial SNAP cuts in the program's history and affect both federal funding and eligibility ...

With the implementation of changes from President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” public assistance programs may impose rules ...

The bill signed into law on July 4 makes major cuts to the program that began in 1939 with the First Food Stamp Program. SNAP ...

Candy bars are off limits, but families can still buy chocolate chips. Energy drinks are not allowed, but Gatorade is, as ...

About 120 SNAP recipients in the county are subject to work requirements. That number is expected to grow under the federal changes, which modify exemption rules.

Many people assume they don't qualify for food assistance, but the rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Changes to the federal food benefit, previously known as food stamps, were embedded in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed ...

Illinois’ governor says Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump are cutting food benefits for those who need it most to give tax cuts to the most wealthy. A Republican state senator said ...

All nutrition and physical activity programming provided under the SNAP-Ed program will be discontinued on Oct. 1.