Tag: SNAP
Trump administration renews Supreme Court appeal to keep full SNAP payments...
President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday in a push to keep full payments in the SNAP federal food aid...
Government says SNAP benefit cuts won’t be as deep as announced...
President Donald Trump's administration now says that SNAP food aid for November will be reduced less than originally announced, the latest in a political and...
Rhode Island Foundation distributes $1M in emergency food grants amid SNAP...
PROVIDENCE – Dozens of food pantries and meal sites across the Ocean State will receive $1 million in emergency grants from the Rhode Island...
Ocean State Job Lot offering 20% off all food until SNAP...
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Ocean State Job Lot has announced that the entire food section in all 17 Rhode Island stores will be discounted by...
When the SNAP supply chain breaks, Rhode Islanders must become the...
Every month, about 140,000 Rhode Islanders depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to feed themselves and their families. That’s 86,000 households, including 23,000...
Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1, raising the stakes...
EBT card-skimming scheme defrauds Rhode Island SNAP recipients out of $500K
CRANSTON – Roughly 1,800 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit recipients throughout Rhode Island were defrauded out of a total of $500,000 after their EBT...
R.I. DHS supervisor, daughter facing federal charges in alleged SNAP fraud
PROVIDENCE – A R.I. Department of Human Services supervisor and her daughter are facing federal charges for allegedly defrauding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,...
U.S. applications for jobless benefits rise to highest level in two...
The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose to their highest level in two months last week, but layoffs remain at historically low...
Biden on ending hunger in U.S.: ‘I know we can do...
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden said Wednesday his administration's goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by the end of the decade was...
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