BOISE, Idaho (KIFI ... for approval to restrict the purchase of junk food using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, commonly known as food stamps.

Waiver grants flexibility by modifying specific USDA program rules, enabling states to administer SNAP program in different ...

Two news bills proposed at the statehouse would aim to combat SNAP (EBT) benefits fraud and ... the DHW as well as to address ...

NEBRASKA — Following a significant move in Nebraska, Idaho ... SNAP is about helping families in need get healthy food into their diets, but there’s nothing nutritious about the junk we ...

Separately, Indiana and Idaho announced their intensions ... longer going to cover the cost of junk food,” Sanders said. The waiver proposes to eliminate SNAP benefits for all types of soda ...

Three Republican-led states are the first to request bans on using food stamps to purchase some junk food, a change pushed by the Trump administration. Officials in Arkansas, Indiana and Idaho ...

IDAHO, USA — Idaho Gov ... the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchases. House Bill 109 is focusing on promoting healthier food options within SNAP purchases, also known ...

Zycher: True. And I never argued that excluding junk food from SNAP by itself is coercive. Rachidi continues to conflate the exclusion of particular dietary choices from SNAP on “nutrition ...

Kennedy Jr, and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins are working together to encourage states to implement rules prohibiting SNAP beneficiaries ... s food assistance program. Idaho's children ...

In Idaho and Indiana, the limits apply to soda ... across the Administration to prohibit the sale of junk food in SNAP and end taxpayer-funded junk food," the letter said. "I also wish to notify ...

In Idaho, we don’t shy away from tough questions. Right now, we’re asking one that’s overdue: Is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — “SNAP,” or “food stamps” as it was ...