Dec. 31 (UPI) --SNAP users in some states face additional limits on what they can buy that take effect Thursday. At least 18 states are banning sodas, sugary drinks and candy from being purchased with ...

New USDA rules will ban SNAP recipients in Florida from buying soda, energy drinks, and candy starting in April 2026. At least 18 states will implement new restrictions on what can be purchased with ...

Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits. Indiana, Iowa, ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Beginning Thursday, SNAP recipients in West Virginia will no longer be able to use their benefits to purchase soda. More than a dozen states applied for waivers from the ...

Kristin Tate is a Republican political strategist and contributor at Sky News. Her latest book is “The Liberal Invasion of Red State America.” Governor Maura Healey’s brazen refusal to share basic ...

There are several changes coming to SNAP benefits in 2026, including stricter bans on what foods can be purchased Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been ...

More than 190,000 people in Michigan are, as of Dec. 1, subject to federal work requirements for food assistance benefits. The longstanding program, formerly referred to as food stamps and designed to ...

An alleged scheme that fraudulently obtained nearly $7 million in SNAP benefits was cracked open after the feds arrested two men who are accused of operating the “criminal enterprise” out of tiny ...

MONTH. CANDY AND CERTAIN SUGARY DRINKS COULD SOON BE BANNED FROM THE SNAP PROGRAM IN SOUTH CAROLINA, GOVERNOR HENRY MCMASTER HAS ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER DIRECTING THE DSS TO SUBMIT A WAIVER REQUEST ...

“Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral failure.” I’ve been that mother in the grocery store line, food stamps in hand, ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins threatened to cut off federal funding to Democratic-leaning states over what she alleged is their refusal to share SNAP program data with the Trump ...

The Trump administration’s new requirements for the nation’s largest food aid program went into effect Monday, with the aim of reforming the costly system. President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful ...