Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Indiana's ban on "sugary sodas" and candy from the state's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. Indiana is part of a national wave of nearly a dozen Republican-led states seeking restrictions in the program.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more commonly known as SNAP — is a federally funded program that provides food assistance to people and families with lower incomes, or no income.

Indiana food bank leaders say their resources are stretched to the limit as the need for support remains unusually high. And they say new federal work requirements added to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, will likely make the situation worse.

Getting access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as "food stamps," may be easier for older and disabled Indiana residents under a new law going into effect July 1.

About 1 in 10 Hoosier families face food insecurity. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also known as SNAP or food stamps can help them get food on the table. But requirements to repeatedly reapply for SNAP can be difficult. This week, legislators gave the governor the opportunity to sign a bill alleviating that difficulty for a few people, but not all.

Enhanced federal benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, have been in place since the start of the pandemic. They will end on June 1.

Indiana Republican lawmakers are poised to cut off extra food stamp benefits Hoosiers have received throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Senate committee backed off a plan to cut off food stamps to Hoosiers who owe child support, changing a proposed bill to merely a study committee topic.

Gov. Eric Holcomb could end the state’s public health emergency without jeopardizing millions in federal funding under a bill approved by a Senate committee Wednesday.

Hoosiers should expect a change in their food stamp benefits as October begins -- with most getting an increase.