SNAP benefits are paid on a monthly basis to around 40 million Americans across all U.S. states and territories.

If passed into law, the bill would push 7.6 milion people off Medicaid, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Cuts and new conditions for SNAP food aid would save $300 billion over ten years. Trump's 2017 tax cuts would be made permanent, costing $2 trillion over the next decade.

A massive tax package contains federal cuts to a program that provides nutrition and lifestyle education to families on SNAP benefits.

Not everyone must work to keep SNAP food benefits. Here's who qualifies for an exemption in through the end of 2025.

The bill, containing expanded work requirements for SNAP and other alterations to the program, passed the House on Thursday morning.

Congressional Republicans are on the precipice of approving $290 billion in cuts to the largest low-income anti-hunger program in the nation. People who rely on the program, already pressured by food price surges,

Two Harrisburg residents were sentenced to federal prison time for defrauding the United States out of $1 million in SNAP benefits.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 172,200 Maine residents, or 12% of the state’s population, were enrolled in SNAP in 2024.