It has been a tumultuous week for the roughly 42 million people across the country who rely on federal food assistance. Some breathed a tentative sigh of relief Friday afternoon after a Rhode Island ...

Gov. Brian Kemp is rejecting calls for Georgia to use its record surplus to keep food assistance flowing to more than 1.3 million residents if congressional lawmakers fail to strike a deal to reopen ...

Some recipients in Georgia normally begin receiving deposits on the 5th of each month. The payments roll out to others on odd dates through the 23rd. Anyone who normally would have received their ...

More than 1.4 million Georgians, roughly 13% of the state’s population, rely on SNAP, according to the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute. According to Center on Budget and Policy, in fiscal year 2024, ...

The Trump administration had said SNAP food assistance wouldn’t be distributed in November because of the government shutdown. But on Friday, a judge ordered that contingency funds be distributed. It ...