Retailers are figuring out how to navigate new policies tightening participation in the food assistance program and ...

SNAP is funded by federal tax dollars but administered by state governments, and states can make changes by submitting waivers to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Revising what SNAP ...

The SNAP waivers granted to Arkansas, Idaho, and Utah each allow the state to operate a two-year pilot project, starting on either January 1, 2026 or July 1, 2026, to amend the statutory ...

How other U.S. states are approaching SNAP benefits Utah’s waiver prohibits using SNAP benefits to purchase “soft drinks,” defined as “a nonalcoholic beverage that is made with carbonated ...

Arkansas’ waiver excludes soda, low and no-calorie soda, fruit and vegetable drinks with less than 50% natural juice, other unhealthy drinks, and candy, and it will take effect July 1, 2026.

But governors in a handful of other states have already submitted requests for their own SNAP waivers, with the intention of restricting certain foods or drinks — or, in a few cases, easing ...

While Oklahoma is looking to restrict candy and soft drinks from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the federal government is making changes of its own through President Donald ...

Per the Urban Institute, the One Big Beautiful Bill also stipulates that the Thrifty Food Plan, under the auspices of SNAP, ...

These changes mark the most substantial SNAP cuts in the program's history and affect both federal funding and eligibility rules.

The governor said he doesn't support SNAP to purchase sugar-sweetened beverages, but he vetoed language lawmakers included in ...

But governors in a handful of other states have already submitted requests for their own SNAP waivers, with the intention of restricting certain foods or drinks — or, in a few cases, easing ...