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The Trump administration has a new plan to get "healthy" food to low-income seniors, but an anti-hunger advocate fears many will miss out.
EVANGELINE PARISH (KATC) — Food and commodity boxes for seniors in Evangeline Parish won't be making it to the pantry this month. Originally scheduled for neighborhood delivery on Thursday ...
Many of the seniors are on low fixed incomes and depend on the once-a-month food pickup, with boxes paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through its Commodity Supplemental Food Program ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has discovered a major food stamp fraud and bribery scheme, misappropriating ...
food boxes, which it says would be filled with healthy produce and other commodities sourced from farmers and given directly to American households. MAHA references Health and Human Services ...
Under the USDA portion of the budget request, the Commodity Supplemental Food Program would be eliminated and replaced with “MAHA food boxes.” CSFP provides seniors with healthy foods through ...
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program works to improve the health of qualified applicants. Commodities are distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
One proposed change to a federal initiative known as Commodity Supplemental Food Program could hit about 25,000 local lower-income seniors. Right now, those people get a 32-pound box filled with ...
She added the days of the Senior Commodities Food Distribution can always use volunteers who are able to lift boxes and be outside no matter the weather. And more important, to show up if they say ...
which provides food boxes to folks receiving medical treatment. The Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee's Commodities Program, another food assistance program, had not been affected ...
funding for the program — called the Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) — would be cut, and seniors instead would receive what the Trump administration is calling "MAHA food boxes ...