The newly proposed Food Secure Strikers Act would enable striking union workers to earn SNAP benefits for the time they are ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Legislation setting work requirements to receive Medicaid and SNAP benefits was approved by a Senate appropriations subcommittee Thursday. The bill ...

State Reps. Daniel Troy, D-Willowick, and Josh Williams, R-Sylvania Township, introduced House Bill 178 this week, which would require the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services to provide a ...

A new effort raise the asset limit for people applying for federal food assistance sees some momentum as the Legislature ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate has approved Senate Bill 379, a measure that would prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients from using their benefits to purchase ...

Texas Sen. Mayes Middleton, a Republican from Galveston, speaks at the State Capitol in Austin. A proposed Texas law that would end the use of SNAP benefits, or food stamps, for buying “junk ...

A bill limiting what you can purchase with food stamps is advancing. What does that mean for the program's future? Here's ...

IDAHO, USA — A bill preventing Idahoans from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to purchase candy and soda will soon be sent to Gov. Brad Little's desk. Supporters of the ...

Louisiana is preparing to join a national effort bubbling up to ban soft drink purchases under SNAP, the federal food assistance program for low-income residents, as part of a larger push to ...