Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government ...

Nebraska is the first state to receive a federal waiver to ban the purchase of soda and energy drinks under the food benefit ...

Kansas received a letter from the federal government that demanded “unfettered access to comprehensive data from all State ...

Nebraska became the first state to ban the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for purchasing ...

The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws ...

A sweeping Farm Bill that includes $300 billion in cuts to food assistance programs has cleared the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture.

Republican lawmakers have introduced new work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as part ...

President Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Agriculture granted Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' request for a federal waiver on May 22, allowing Iowa to restrict SNAP dollars from being used for some foods.

The move, announced Monday by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, would affect about 152,000 people in Nebraska enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP ...

USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins signed the first-ever federal waiver to change the statutory definition of what qualifies as food under SNAP. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen also signed the federal waiver.

The lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture violated federal privacy laws when it ordered states and vendors to turn over five years of data about ...