Jan 08, 2025

Replacement Benefits for SNAP Theft Victims Should Be Permanent

Today, a single mom makes her way through the grocery store, loads her cart onto the conveyor belt, exchanges small talk with the cashier, and swipes her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) card. It’s a normal event. Except, this time, the card doesn’t work. She tries again, and again. Only to learn the horrifying reality that her account is empty. 

Dec 19, 2024

Heat and Eat: New SNAP Utility Allowance Rules

Utility costs are rising across the country at a rate that many find unsustainable.1 For many households with low incomes, this means making tough decisions, choosing between putting food on the table and other essential household needs such as heating their homes during the winter months. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a critical program for lifting households out of poverty through a monthly benefit dedicated for food and beverage purchases, accounts for this decision by allowing households to deduct part of their utilities costs through a standard utility allowance, which varies from state to state. A new regulation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) makes an update to that allowance that will impact SNAP households.

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