supplemental nutrition assistance program

Food insecurity is another way of saying you don't know where your next meal is coming from. It can happen to anyone who has lost a job, is struggling...

HARRISBURG— Some legislators have worried that Pennsylvanians who receive federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits might b...

HARRISBURG — Over 2 million Pennsylvanians receive funds from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Monthly, this brings abo...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — After adding more than $1 billion to its anticipated Medicaid costs this year specifically for Ozempic and similar weight-loss drug...

HARRISBURG — Three bills to stop waste, fraud, and abuse in Pennsylvania’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medical Assistance program we...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Where have we seen this before? Just as he did in when he first was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump prepares to take office...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s work requirement waiver for food stamps now lasts through Aug. 31, 2025. This is despite recent urging from Republican Hou...

HARRISBURG – A stalled congressional effort to update the nation’s five-year Farm Bill hinges on a disagreement over how to calculate food stamp benef...

HARRISBURG – A new program that covers fresh groceries for low-income kids during summer break in 2025 will accept applications through the end of the...

OLEAN, N.Y. — A longtime Olean restaurateur faces multiple charges connected with an alleged case of welfare fraud, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s O...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — As the pandemic plunged families into financial uncertainty, even temporary safety nets and bigger paychecks haven’t been enough to...

The American Dream in Pennsylvania has a price tag: That’s the cost for a family of four to live “comfortably” in The Keystone State. The tally is bas...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson, R-Pa., and Mike Conaway, R-Texas, joined by their colleagues on the House Committee on Agricult...

HARRISBURG — Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Teresa Miller reminded Pennsylvanians that public assistance programs remain available to fa...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — State troopers suing North Carolina for millions of dollars in back pay say the state's broken promises have forced them into tou...