The $12 billion in potential annual losses represents taxpayer money diverted from feeding vulnerable Americans to funding ...

"Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral ...

Billions of dollars in food aid are vanishing from electronic benefit cards, and new fraud data is starting to show which ...

The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court for a final ruling on the fate of full SNAP payments during the government shutdown.

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BRIDGEPORT — Kristina Morales pulled out her phone to display the remaining balance of her federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food benefits. "I have 23 cents on my card," she ...

WASHINGTON — Growing up with a single mother who had a disability, Angela Burke has vivid childhood memories of how much food stamps made a difference at their dining room table. “When you got those ...

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the ...

Taxpayers subsidize ultra-processed calories through SNAP, the resulting disease through Medicare and Medicaid, and then ...

Get live updates and the latest news as the government shutdown hits the one month mark, with Trump administration promising military paychecks but not SNAP funds.

Millions of Texans will lose federal food assistance in November, raising questions of where to get free meals and groceries. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will stop paying ...

DEAR ANNIE: My husband, “Keith,” and I have been married for 12 years. We’ve always been a team when it comes to parenting our two kids, ages 9 and 6, but lately I’ve noticed a shift. Keith has become ...