New rules around what SNAP users can purchase with their benefits will start in April.

Explore the public health argument behind the 2026 SNAP reforms. Leaders argue taxpayer money shouldn't fund foods that ...

Around 42 million low-income Americans rely on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees the program and says it is working on an ...

The Agriculture Department will use $4.65 billion in emergency funds to partially restart food aid programs halted by the government shutdown. Millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

Texas and Virginia are the latest states to begin enforcing new purchase restrictions for SNAP, the taxpayer-funded food ...

Payments through SNAP, the federal food assistance program, have been delayed during the government shutdown, but program cuts in this summer's budget bill already put vulnerable families at long-term ...

Armstrong Williams did a great service to all in helping us understand the problems with the SNAP program (“The uncomfortable truth about SNAP,” Nov. 4). As stated, the program was never meant to be ...

Some 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits to put food on the table. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images News Tracy Roof, University of Richmond The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has ...