Stricter federal compliance rules and mounting backlogs have exposed a critical weakness in how states process SNAP benefits. Modernizing document workflows in these outdated, paper-heavy systems ...

People enrolled in SNAP, WIC, Medicaid or similar programs can get a 20% discount on produce and half off the cost of the ...

Indiana Senate Republicans have released a bill that would add immigration checks to SNAP and Medicaid, potentially removing ...

A Massachusetts native on the national frontline of targeting SNAP fraud says the Bay State’s “lax controls” played a large ...

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The signature legislation of President Donald ...

SNAP recipients should take steps now to protect their benefits, as advocates warn changes will mean more people will go ...

Buying candy and sugar-sweetened beverages with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits was banned in some states ...

Underpayments are less frequent, with most states underpaying only 1% or 2% of the time. The most underpayments were in ...

Officials with the city’s Human Resources Administration said they’re always working to improve, but said the primary driver ...

Recipients decided whether their prepaid debit cards arrived physically, which might allow them to take cash out of an ATM, ...

Most of Alaska’s errors in 2024 were overpayments. Other jurisdictions with high rates of overpayment are Washington, D.C. (13.6%), Georgia (13.6%), Florida (13.1%), New Mexico (13.1%) and ...

More than 19,000 Mississippi families lost access to child care vouchers after pandemic-era funding that helped support the ...