SNAP is the largest federal nutrition assistance program, but it’s operated and administered at the state level, and ...

A community town hall held on Saturday at East Lake United Methodist Church in Birmingham addressed growing concerns over ...

Under new income thresholds for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, better known as WIC, more families may qualify for food benefits in Alabama.

Now Executive Director Martha Henk said cuts to that program and others by the USDA will hurt the food bank this year. The challenges keep piling up for the Food Bank of East Alabama as the ...

The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board, chaired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has approved the enhanced Food Stamp Program of the Department of Social Welfare and ...

Food Stamps in 2025: The U.S. Department of Agriculture ... because it has already been determined to be eligible for another means-tested program.” The USDA made a chart for 2025 showing the income ...

MONTGOMERY — Two bills that would more strictly enforce eligibility for Medicaid and food stamps in Alabama passed out of the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee last week amid pushback from ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — A bill has been filed in the Alabama Legislature requiring the state to reimburse citizens who have had their food stamps stolen. In February, bill SB230, sponsored by ...

SNAP is the country’s most effective anti-hunger program ... benefits already fall short. In Alabama, the average SNAP benefit for each household per month is $192 or $6.31 for each household member ...

Every five years, food stamps provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP ... 144,000 people above the poverty line in Alabama, including 65,000 children, per year ...

Food stamp recipients in Alabama have a new age range and work requirements to follow. The new rules say “able-bodied” adults without dependents aged 18 to 52 must show they are working at least 80 ...

Alabama residents ... Nutrition Assistance Program are set to receive their benefits for September in three days. SNAP benefits, commonly called food stamps, are distributed in Alabama from ...