Tennessee will implement changes to what items can be bought with federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits in 2026. The new restrictions bar SNAP recipients from using ...

Understand the new 2026 SNAP restrictions on "non-nutritious" foods. See which states are affected and how this impacts your ...

Starting today, millions of Americans on food assistance will find new items suddenly off-limits at the checkout. Five states — Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia — have begun enforcing ...

The Trump administration on Monday approved six additional states seeking to ban food stamp recipients from purchasing processed food. Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Texas and Florida ...

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New Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program purchasing restrictions are set to take effect in Iowa on Jan. 1, and the independent grocer is only beginning to parse through the roughly 4,000 products ...

Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits. Indiana, Iowa, ...

The federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will no longer cover processed food and drinks like candy and soda in Tennessee. The changes are set to take effect on July 31.