The new year is always a good time to reset your budget, but how you do so will also depend on any adjustments to your income or your expenses. As of Oct. 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps) was under the spotlight last month as one of the programs affected by the government shutdown. Thankfully, after a brief pause in ...

President Donald Trump tried to hit the reset button with Americans on Wednesday night by reminding them of the Biden administration and arguing his own policies have driven down prices and made ...

Learn practical ways to make your 2026 Social Security check go further. From budgeting to health costs, these steps help you ...

From the final quarter of 2024 to the first quarter of 2025, total reported SNAP benefit thefts climbed from 444,553 to 691,604, a 55 percent jump in a single quarter. Between the second quarter of ...

A total of 18 states will be banning junk food and/or drink purchases using SNAP benefits in 2026. These states are Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, ...

At the beginning of November, in the face of the federal government’s shutdown, the distribution of Supplemental Nutrition ...

Oregonians in 19 counties facing food losses from recent storms have until Jan. 16, 2026 to claim extended SNAP benefits.

After the lapse in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at the beginning of November and uncertainty about the future of the program that followed, all Ohioans should now have received ...

Food banks are scrambling to keep up with a continued surge in demand as Bay Area families are still recovering from lapses in federal food benefits triggered by the government shutdown. The need ...