Food stamp recipients gobbled more than half a billion dollars on fast food over two years, with California eating up most of ...

California’s spending comes as its CalFresh program serves more than 5 million people. Roughly 13% of Californians rely on ...

California’s food stamps program, known as CalFresh, provides monthly food benefits to low-income households. Benefits are distributed each month to CalFresh accounts linked to CalFresh EBT cards.

California’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will send the first payment for November, worth up to $1,751, to residents in one day. The federal SNAP program, called CalFresh in the Golden ...

As grocery prices continue to rise and millions of Californians saw their food benefits disrupted this month, nearly one in three residents statewide says they or someone in their home has spent less ...

The proposal comes as the Trump administration has attempted to steer SNAP claimants toward healthier purchases.

Food banks are scrambling to keep up with a continued surge in demand as Bay Area families are still recovering from lapses in federal food benefits triggered by the government shutdown. The need ...

Food stamps were first issued in 1939 as an assistance program to prevent starvation during the Great Depression. But 86 years later, thousands of liquor stores and smoke shops have become approved ...

The Trump administration plans to block Democratic-controlled states from accessing billions of dollars they need to run their food stamp programs unless governors turn over benefits rolls to federal ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a Santa Ana food truck owner in an alleged SNAP fraud scheme after investigators identified unusually high EBT transactions.