Local anti-poverty groups have had to scramble and scale back this year as the Trump administration targeted safety-net ...

GiveDirectly got $50 gift cards out to SNAP recipients during last month’s shutdown through a new approach to cash assistance.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed an executive order awarding funds for several nonprofit organizations across Greater Cleveland and throughout the state. Specifically, DeWine’s ...

Families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in Washington, D.C., are starting to see an increase to the child support payments they receive. According to Meridel Bulle-Vu, ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Some Virginia residents receiving TANF benefits report mistakenly getting hundreds of dollars into their accounts one week before Thanksgiving, but then having the amounts reversed ...

New Jersey's Winter Termination Program prevents utility shutoffs for eligible residents from Nov. 15 to March 15. Eligibility extends to recipients of various state and federal assistance programs, ...

Donna K. Ginther, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Michelle Johnson-Motoyama ([email protected]), Ohio State University, ...

Federally-funded food benefits are expected to be put on pause at the start of November as the government shutdown continues. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, helps over ...

A continued federal government shutdown threatens to halt SNAP and WIC food assistance benefits for millions of Americans starting November 1. The USDA has stated that reserve funds will not be used ...

Across Tennessee I meet parents who are terrified — not because they don’t work hard, but because the math no longer works. A flat paycheck, rising rent, higher medicine costs and groceries that keep ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The government shutdown may be affecting SNAP benefit recipients, but state agency leaders say that won't be the case for another program, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The federal government shutdown has impacted the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Kentuckians could see funding dry up next month. Millions of Americans who rely on that ...