Eligible families will have 122 days to use the summer benefits. The count begins the day after benefits are issued.

So far this week, about 300 households have lost approximately $76,000 in benefits. That figure may rise, however. And the state officials say federal rules prohibit them from replacing stolen ...

A 39-year-old Romanian man has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $500,000 from a US government benefits program and other ...

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) dollars are being distributed to eligible families across New York State.

Six more states have banned junk food purchases from being bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

Georgia’s privately contracted electronic food benefits hotline was hit with a cyberattack, the latest blow to recipients of SNAP aid.

More than half a million social security recipients will soon need to choose another way to receive their benefits.

Both the Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS), which administers the state’s electronic benefit transfer (EBT) program, ...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt asked the federal government to carve out a ban on certain food bought with SNAP benefits.

Waivers have already been approved in a dozen states ban unhealthy foods from being bought using SNAP benefits.

All of her children are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and would have been eligible for the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer Program, a program which could have ...

EBT, or Electronic Benefits Transfer, is the system used to distribute and access those SNAP benefits. Wal-Mart offers the same service as Hy-Vee, while Price Chopper and Aldi allow SNAP/EBT for ...