Maryland has secured more than $2.6 million in philanthropic grant funding to launch artificial intelligence tools aimed at streamlining access to public benefits such as food assistance, Medicaid and ...

Thousands of Minnesota households will now be able to receive energy assistance after a monthlong delay caused by the federal government shutdown. The Minnesota Department of Commerce on Wednesday ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The government-funded Home Energy Assistance Program (H.E.A.P.) has returned, just as the weather gets colder. Originally set to reopen at the start of November, the program was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As winter prepares to chill New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul is offering a financial reprieve for heating costs through the Home Energy Assistance Program. “As temperatures have ...

Federal funding that millions of Americans use to help pay their heating bills in the winter is arriving weeks behind schedule due to disruptions from the government shutdown, which ended earlier this ...

When Lee Harris’ SNAP benefits didn’t come through on Nov. 11, he was forced to get creative. Having already exhausted the family’s October benefits, the 34-year-old stay-at-home dad in Little Rock, ...

THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT AS TEMPS DROP. LOCAL OIL COMPANIES ARE ALREADY FEELING THE FIRST WAVE OF CALLS. MANY CUSTOMERS RELY ON FUEL ASSISTANCE TO GET THROUGH THE WINTER. KEVIN D’AMELIO, OWNER ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation late Wednesday to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Under the bill, multiple agencies and programs will be funded for the entire fiscal ...

As the government reopens, efforts to return the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to full funding across the country will face its own challenges. SNAP benefits have been put through ...

Lawmakers reauthorized the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program as part of the deal to reopen the federal government, but funding remains an open question. The end of the longest federal ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a temporary order blocking full food assistance payments under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The decision keeps in place a patchwork ...