Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A worker places an Electronic Benefit Transfer sign outside a grocery store in the Bronx borough of New York on October 24, 2025. ...

President Trump signed a bill that made his 2019 tax cuts permanent and cut SNAP funding by an estimated $186 billion through 2034. The new law makes it more difficult to qualify for SNAP benefits by ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides nearly 42 million low- and no-income Americans with federal money to buy groceries. As the government shutdown dragged into its second ...

The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump administration to pay food-stamp benefits regardless. Team ...

With $95 million on the line, Louisiana health officials are rolling out cash bonuses, tighter reviews and new wage checks to reduce errors in SNAP, the food assistance program serving one in five ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is planning to cut off food stamp benefits on Saturday, citing the government shutdown. But ...

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Food stamps were first issued in 1939 as an assistance program to prevent starvation during the Great Depression. But 86 years later, thousands of liquor stores and smoke shops have become approved ...