Officials will assess the lines at the food stamp sites, and if they are at capacity they may not allow anymore applicants for the day. Also, there will now be a special entrance for elderly and ...

Anita Dreichler, coordinator of Rockland Community Against Hunger, warned that the impact of current and future cuts "is ...

The state Department of Social Services said today that it is preparing to launch the state's emergency food stamp program, but for now, residents in need of food, water and ...

Every household in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as food stamps are formally known, will see their monthly benefits shrink by at least $95. Some larger families could ...

BATON ROUGE -- The Disaster Food Stamp Program ended this week with considerably less attention than its widely panned opening almost a month ago, when long lines and general disorder ...