Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

A volunteer prepares meals at the Philabundance Community Kitchen in Philadelphia, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Government ordered to use emergency funds for food aid during shutdown

Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using emergency reserve funds during the government shutdown.

California National Guard sort produce at the Los Angeles Food Bank Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Federal government shutdown threatens SNAP food aid as several states scramble to help

Instacart, DoorDash, Gopuff among companies offering discounts to SNAP recipients

KC Neufeld, right, shops with her family in Englewood, Colo., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)

Looming SNAP cuts change what’s on offer for Halloween trick-or-treaters

Volunteer Joel Hernandez helps load a vehicle during a food distribution targeting federal employee households affected by the federal shutdown as well as SNAP recipients, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

What to know as federal food help and preschool aid will run dry Saturday if shutdown persists

Past Coverage

Georgia promises all to get food aid money by Thanksgiving

New Mexico to pay feds more than $19M over SNAP mishandling

More MN households qualify for federal food assistance

Divided Missouri Senate backs food stamp use at restaurants

Hawaii governor extends COVID-19 food assistance spending

Kentucky storm victims to have SNAP benefits replaced

SNAP fraud investigation leads to arrest in Mississippi

323K people in Louisiana get disaster food stamps after Ida

Ricketts promotes Nebraska jobs program for SNAP recipients

Tennessee offering food benefits to flood victims

Louisiana families to see food stamp increase in October

Business Highlights: Food stamp benefits, Tesla probe

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2015 file photo, a supermarket displays stickers indicating they accept food stamps in West New York, N.J. The Biden administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food stamp assistance available to needy families—the largest single increase in the program’s history. Starting in October 2021, average benefits for food stamps (officially known as the SNAP program) will rise more than 25 percent above pre-pandemic levels. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Food stamp benefits to increase by more than 25% in October

Hawaii worries people aren’t completing food stamp paperwork

Maryland man gets 6 years for $1 million in fraud schemes

Report: Millions of full-time US workers get government aid

This April 5, 2020, photo, provided by Amanda Siebe shows her, in Hillsboro, Ore. Siebe suffers from a chronic pain condition and has a compromised immune system, so she tries to avoid leaving the house. But she struggles to stretch her food aid benefit — $194 a month — in normal times, and she would love to have more cash now to be able to buy larger food quantities to limit grocery trips. (Amanda Siebe via AP)

Governors plead for food stamp flexibility amid pandemic

USDA to appeal ruling, seeks food stamp change amid pandemic

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2019, file photo, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue testifies during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing to end an option that has allowed states to exceed federal eligibility thresholds for food stamps. Perdue says the proposed rule change is intended to close a “loophole” that states have misused to “effectively bypass important eligibility guidelines.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump proposal seeks to crack down on food stamp ‘loophole’

Visitors line up to enter the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justices side with business, government in information fight

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2018, file photo, Walmart associate Alicia Carter fulfills online grocery orders at a Walmart Supercenter in Houston. Amazon and Walmart on Thursday, April 18,...

Food stamps and online grocery shopping are about to mix

House passes legislation to fund agriculture, transportation, housing programs

USDA: Food stamps will be funded through February

USDA moves to tighten work requirements for food stamps

Democrats’ House takeover spurs hope for farm bill this year

Nebraska earns another $1.7 million in federal bonuses after fixing state’s food stamp system

Medicaid work requirements hotly debated at Legislature

Plan would allow drug testing for some food stamp recipients

SNAP flexibilities to promote self-sufficiency

Food boxes, not stamps? Idea in Trump budget worries grocers

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