A woman who told her thousands of online followers how to obtain "free" food assistance has been arrested on fraud charges.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved three state waiver requests to amend the statutory definition of food eligible for ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is more commonly known as food stamps. In the U.S., it is how the government helps feed people who cannot afford food. Like many ...

Perhaps the most important bill in Louisiana’s upcoming legislative ... for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (commonly called “food stamps”) and for cash allowances ...

WASHINGTON — The House’s sweeping budget plan to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda could result in steep cuts to Medicaid and food stamps ... Assistance Program, according to an ...

The backlog for food benefits is ... Please fill out the form below if: You’ve been waiting more than a month to hear about your Medicaid or SNAP application and have faced medical or financial ...

The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services received approval on Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ... lost more food than the automatic benefit replacement covers, they ...

are Arkansas and Louisiana. Among Republican leaders, there's debate about the extra federal cash for food. Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen has said the program is "just another form of welfare ...

“There are many qualifiers for SNAP. There are no qualifiers here,” said Joyce Wagner, a food pantry volunteer ... given time frame. The forms used to file the application were not accessible ...

The Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA) is responsible for screening all applicants for expedited SNAP benefits during the application process. Applicants must provide proof of identity ...

But librarians had already become, by necessity, experts in helping people figure out how to navigate the online application forms for food stamps ... Even Louisiana’s food banks recognize ...