The decision marks a historic departure in SNAP administration, being the first waiver of its kind approved by the USDA.

Nebraska has received the first federal waiver to ban soda and energy drinks from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the food benefit ...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed a waiver to amend which foods and beverages will be available for purchase ...

Costco has become one of the biggest names in the membership-only warehouse club store business. The chain first opened under ...

Nebraska lawmakers upheld a lifetime ban on SNAP benefits for felons with drug convictions. LB 319 was six votes short of becoming law.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins approved a waiver Monday (May 19) allowing Nebraska to prohibit Supplemental ...

Recipients of Nebraska’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will no longer be allowed to purchase soda or ...

GET ADDED TO ANOTHER MEASURE. AND BREAKING TONIGHT, NEBRASKA GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN VETOES A BILL THAT WAS PASSED BY LAWMAKERS TODAY. LEIGH 319 WOULD EXPAND SNAP ELIGIBILITY TO CONVICTED DRUG ...

How a bill becomes a law in the Nebraska Legislature LINCOLN — A bill ... ban helps entire households because a person barred from SNAP counts toward their household income but not the headcount ...

Nebraska’s Republican governor vetoed the proposal — which seeks to reverse the 2009 law that prohibited drug dealers and, in some cases, convicted drug users from accessing SNAP benefits ...