New work requirements and cost-sharing for states are among the key changes under what President Trump calls his "big ...

The nation's food banks are at ground zero in this disaster, caught between a growing need and the prospect of a sharp drop ...

State Department expects to distribute 59,305 metric tons of food aid amid reports that 500 tons were incinerated, with ...

The 2008 Food and Nutrition Act allowed the secretary of Agriculture to grant waivers for states or counties with high unemployment rates. For years, all SNAP recipients in Illinois have been exempt ...

The USDA has set a deadline of July 30 for states to hand over the sensitive data of tens of millions of people who applied ...

Hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans could lose benefits from a federal food assistance program while the state will be ...

A shutdown would affect the nearly 7 million women and children who rely on WIC for healthy food. Free school lunch and Meals on Wheels are also at risk, and SNAP could be impacted eventually too.

*The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a federal initiative aimed at providing essential food supplies to low-income individuals and families at no cost. USDA provides 100% American ...

As federal food aid programs like SNAP and TEFAP face deep cuts, Hagerstown-area pantries could face a looming demand crisis.