Texans receiving federal food assistance caught in crosshairs of congressional funding fight
More than 225,000 Texans could get turned away from the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children next year unless Congress allocates more money for the program, advocates and the White House warns. But partisan divisions are obscuring the path forward on government funding.
Texasโ statewide poverty rate declines, but several rural counties see increase in poor residents
An influx of highly educated people from other states helped shift the stateโs economic fortune. But in many parts of Texas, residents are struggling as jobs dry up.
With new federal food stamp limits coming, advocates mobilize to inform Texas recipients
A requirement to work 80 hours a month, starting in September, could affect 44,000 Texans over age 49. Meanwhile, attention in Congress shifts to the farm billโs significant impact on food stamp policy.
Texas lowers barrier for food stamps, but many still wonโt qualify
A new state law increases what SNAP applicantsโ vehicles can be worth before theyโre disqualified for federal food assistance. But most states donโt take car values into consideration at all.
More Texans would qualify for food stamps under a bill heading to Gov. Greg Abbott
The value of a householdโs vehicles disqualified nearly 55,000 people seeking federal food assistance in 2022. House Bill 1287 increases the threshold of car values that lead to SNAP applicants being denied aid.
Texas suing USDA over requirement to add LGBTQ protections to nutrition programsโ nondiscrimination policies
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced in May that it would expand its definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Paxton and other attorneys general are suing in response.
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Texas Health and Human Services to provide more than $168M in emergency SNAP food benefits
AUSTIN, Texas โ Texas Health and Human Services will provide more than $168 million in emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food benefits to help people in the state during the COVID-19 response, Gov. HHS got federal approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide the maximum allowable number of SNAP benefits to recipients based on family size, according to a news release. Anyone receiving SNAP benefits is included. โSNAP, commonly referred to as the food stamp program, supplements the budget of the working poor. "The additional food subsidy announced today by Governor Abbott, although still supplemental, will help fill a portion of the financial gap created by the economic crisis resulting from this pandemic.
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Local school leaders concerned with proposed SNAP changes
Local school leaders concerned with proposed SNAP changesPublished: November 4, 2019, 9:21 pmLocal school leaders are speaking out about their concerns with proposed changes to supplemental nutrition assistance program or SNAP benefits commonly known as food stamps.