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How are SNAP benefits changing? Here's what the program will look like in 2026

SNAP benefits became a national flashpoint during the government shutdown in 2025, as millions of Americans worried about what would happen if funding stalled. For households relying on monthly ...
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SNAP benefits run dry as government shutdown continues, here's how states are stepping in

Beginning Saturday, some 42 million low-income Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as the government shutdown ...
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SNAP benefits, enrollment didn't increase 40% under Biden. Here's what USDA data says

In a Fox News appearance in late 2025, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins claimed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — colloquially referred to as food stamps — "increased almost ...

'Confusing' new food restrictions come to Iowa's SNAP program in 2026

Iowa’s SNAP payment error rate — including overpayments and underpayments — was 6.14% in fiscal year 2024. Sample, the HHS ...

How a fast-moving $50 cash relief program buoyed needy families when SNAP payments were paused

Nearly a quarter of a million families got that same cash injection from the nonprofit GiveDirectly as they missed SNAP ...

Trump administration says it needs to fight SNAP fraud, but the extent of the problem is unclear

Accusations of widespread fraud are at the heart of the Trump administration's policies on SNAP. Officials looking at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from a law enforcement view see it ...