On October 1, 2025, the U.S. government shut down after Congress failed to pass the 12 annual appropriations bills or a stopgap funding resolution. That shutdown lasted 43 days, the longest in U.S.

Big Beautiful Bill Act makes seismic changes to the financial structure of SNAP, basically shifting much of the program cost ...

Stricter federal compliance rules and mounting backlogs have exposed a critical weakness in how states process SNAP benefits. Modernizing document workflows in these outdated, paper-heavy systems ...

Around 42 million low-income Americans rely on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees the program and says it is working on an ...

Nearly 42 million individuals across the United States are covered by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), according to May 2025 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with a ...

WEEK. WE’VE TALKED ABOUT SNAP QUITE A LOT THIS MONTH, YET IF YOU’RE GETTING BENEFITS, WE’RE GETTING ANSWERS ABOUT A PROGRAM THAT LETS YOU DOUBLE YOUR MONEY. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER MATT FLENER IS HERE ...