The financial balance of U.S. states faces a significant challenge as recent federal policies shift the responsibility and costs of essential social programs onto their budgets. The question is not if ...

GOP-backed plan permits a two-year delay in the implementation of cost-sharing policy for states with high error payment ...

President Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" shifts more Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs to states.

The average benefit loss for 114,000 NJ families will be $182 monthly as the state faces new requirements to fund the program ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP benefit cost-share. Can Kansas fix its payment error rate and prevent a federal funding ...

A wide array of hunger and health care advocates are hoping to mitigate the effects of some provisions in Trump’s budget bill ...

The additional state or county costs for administering the program and covering some benefits will put a burden on state budgets, which could make it harder to improve SNAP administration.

SNAP, the largest anti-hunger program nationwide, has traditionally been solely federally funded, and state leaders have expressed concerns that introducing cost-sharing will harm state budgets.

Republicans reformed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in their "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," but supporters of ...

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" changes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to impose a benefits cost-share that could ...