Eleven states are sending emergency allotments or leftover SNAP benefits in May 2025. See who qualifies and when payments ...

The Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program—also known as Summer EBT or SUN Bucks—provides $120 per eligible child to help low-income families afford groceries over the summer months when school ...

Nebraska has become the first state in the nation to restrict low-income recipients of public grocery aid from using SNAP ...

Food banks across Texas condemned a plan by House Republicans to restrict SNAP benefits and make some states pay for up to 25 ...

If passed into law, the bill would push 7.6 milion people off Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Cuts ...

The bill would require states, for the first time, to cover part of the cost of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or ...

The RMP is a state option that allows certain SNAP beneficiaries to buy prepared foods at restaurants with their SNAP benefits. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that eligible individuals ...

The federal government has fully paid for benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program since it was created in 1939 as a way to fight food insecurity amid the Great Depression.

In 2025, eligibility criteria and benefit amounts ... more than eight people, SNAP sets an additional allowable income of $583 per month or $6,996 per year for each extra person, in cases where ...

Families that are in poverty and struggling to make ends meet might be cut off from social welfare benefits if Congress moves ...