A change in requirements to receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could affect upwards of 340,000 Illinoisans.

Illinois legislators are considering two emergency bills in response to federal changes that will reduce or end Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits for about 230,000 state ...

Illinois must cut its error rate nearly in half to avoid penalties. Illinois’ high error rate administering food stamp benefits could cost the state over $700 million, according to a new report from ...

Illinois lawmakers are considering a plan to help with the transition to new SNAP work requirements. House Bill 4730 would create a program called FRESH (Families Receiving Emergency Support for ...

Hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents are expected to be pushed out of the federal food assistance program for people with low incomes as soon as May 1.

(The Center Square) – As new federal work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program take effect this month, Illinois lawmakers are considering a state-run program that would ...

H.R. 1, or the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law last July, changes the work requirements for the federal food assistance program known as SNAP. Starting Feb. 1, adults aged 18 to 64 without ...

Kenny Robinson Sr. moves quickly Monday through the one-room food pantry inside Chosen Bethel Family Ministries in Englewood on the South Side. He drops bags of spaghetti into more than a dozen ...

Cook County health officials are warning about the ripple effects to public health if thousands of residents lose access to one of the country’s largest food assistance programs for low-income ...