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More than 11,100 households across 14 Arkansas counties, including Saline County, are eligible for food assistance through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistan ...
To get started with an application form, you can visit your local chapter or apply online with the required documentation.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill" changes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to impose a benefits cost-share that could cost Kansas taxpayers.
If the debt-ridden federal government were to pay $55 million a year less for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in Arkansas, could the surplus-running state government make up the ...
A federal budget bill could impact 177,000 Arkansans' Medicaid and 60,000's SNAP access, facing scrutiny ahead of Senate vote, according to advocates.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate parliamentarian will rule on revised language in Senate Republicans’ sweeping tax and spending measure affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
The Senate is looking to have states pay more for SNAP, but Colorado officials say the result will be smaller benefits for fewer people.
Three states received the latest USDA waivers allowing them to prohibit participants in the government's food assistance SNAP program from buying junk food.
Arkansas advocates are warning that the proposed changes to SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance will harm families, and they are urging senators to oppose.
Republican and Democratic leaders have either downplayed or overstated the estimated impact of the House reconciliation bill on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as ...
(The Center Square) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed three waivers on Tuesday for Arkansas, Idaho and Utah food stamp programs, preventing “sugary drinks” such as sodas ...
The measure should be signed quickly by Gov. Greg Abbott, who signaled he wants a waiver from federal rules to keep junk food from SNAP purchases.