The USDA, which oversees SNAP, first announced a plan to make states share benefit recipient data in a directive issued in ...

The Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) is refusing a federal order to hand over personal data from people who ...

Kansas officials are pushing back against federal officials who are demanding the release of personal information for those ...

Kansas refuses to provide personal data of SNAP recipients to the USDA, challenging a federal directive designed to increase interagency data sharing.

The DCF says the requested data would include personal information, such as Social Security numbers and addresses, for any ...

The states have been studying how to support their aging populations, but now critical federal funds won’t be available to ...

The USDA previously demanded state agency directors release personal information for SNAP applicants, recipients and members ...

State lawmakers must soon decide whether to cover the extra costs to provide food assistance. If they don’t, food banks and ...

Nationally, the demand is being challenged in court by students, SNAP recipients, the Electronic Privacy Information Center ...

Retailers are figuring out how to navigate new policies tightening participation in the food assistance program and ...

Kansas would have to pay for about $63 million in SNAP benefits, based on a 15% cost-share of the $417 million in benefits. The administrative cost-shift would require roughly $14 million more ...