While most of the state’s attention focused on what the Republican House majority was doing to Medicaid, a much more direct ...

How will food stamp access be affected by Hurricane Ida? Here's what to know. Louisiana ... forms of ID include a work or school ID, ID for health benefits or another social services program ...

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 ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will conclude its August payments for low-income Louisiana residents in one day. The last SNAP payment in August will be sent out Wednesday as food ...

If potential beneficiaries have submitted an application for the federal food assistance program, they have a few ways to check their application status. SNAP ... 1-800-283-4465. Louisiana ...

From her office in suburban Baton Rouge, Jean Guinta is in charge of overseeing the food stamp program in the River Parishes and parts of coastal Louisiana, including the hard-hit Lafourche ...

Inundated by calls from people struggling to buy groceries after Hurricane Ida, Louisiana’s social services agency received federal approval to stretch out the application period for disaster food ...

Congress made changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the country's largest food aid service, that expand the age requirements for food stamp recipients who are considered able ...

the name of the food stamps program. If the bill passes the Senate as-is — and that’s not a foregone conclusion — then Louisiana taxpayers will have to put up $326.3 million, starting in ...