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 plans to freeze federal funding for 21 states starting next week as it escalates its crackdown on possible fraud in the food stamp program, Agriculture Secretary Brooke ...

The US Department of Agriculture ordered states to stop issuing full food stamp benefits for November and to “immediately undo” any issuance of the full allotments, after a Supreme Court justice on ...

WASHINGTON — About 3.1 million people would lose food stamp benefits under the Trump administration’s proposal to tighten automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program. The Agriculture ...

Starting Saturday, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for millions are in jeopardy as the impacts of the weeks-long federal government shutdown expand. The U.S. Department of ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A now-deleted contingency plan showed the U.S. Department of Agriculture once expected to keep food assistance funded during a government shutdown — before reversing course in ...

Federal food aid will be suspended from Nov. 1 on account of the ongoing government shutdown, a move that is expected to impact millions of Americans. "Bottom line, the well has run dry," a notice ...