Two million people in Pennsylvania regularly receive SNAP benefits, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. Data show about 160,000 of them are in Allegheny County. After state ...

(NEXSTAR) – As the federal government shutdown endures for a third week, states have started to issue concerning warnings: Funding for food assistance is about to dry up. “SNAP benefits for November ...

That’s the answer to my question to my 70-year-old neighbor when I asked her, “What if you didn’t have SNAP?” My neighbor worked all her life and is on Social Security. She had to sell her home and ...

The food assistance program relies on government funding. Federal officials are warning of the threat that a prolonged government shutdown, now in its 15th day, could pose to millions of Americans who ...

Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy food may be affected as soon as November if the ongoing government shutdown continues. In a letter to state agencies ...

Sweeping changes to SNAP are coming sooner than anticipated following the signing of a tax bill in July. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a memo on Oct. 3 stating that all states ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily/AP) — As the government shutdown moves into its seventh day, there’s concern that programs around one million Arizonans rely on could run out of funding soon. The shutdown came as ...

As the partial government shutdown extends into day two with no end in sight, more federally funded agencies are turning to contingency plans to keep lights on and doors open for the millions of ...

Changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka SNAP, became effective Oct. 1. These adjustments, which most notably include larger monthly benefits, come under the United States ...

WELL, YOU KNOW, THE KEY PHRASE THERE IS FOR NOW, THESE CARRYOVER FUNDS WILL ONLY LAST FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND APPLY TO KEEP SOME PROGRAMING GOING. SO IT’S STILL AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE HERE. I ...

The federal government is withholding $10.4 million in administrative funding from Kansas for the SNAP program. Kansas submitted a corrective action plan to the USDA, but the federal agency apparently ...

On September 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled that a county health insurance plan’s exclusion denying coverage for gender-affirming surgery did not ...