On October 1, 2025, the U.S. government shut down after Congress failed to pass the 12 annual appropriations bills or a stopgap funding resolution. That shutdown lasted 43 days, the longest in U.S.

After government shutdown-related delays in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) disbursements early this November left thousands of the community’s most vulnerable people struggling to ...

Eligible Americans can now apply for SSI and SNAP together through a simplified process.

Sofi is an AI policy researcher at Virginia Tech. As the government shutdown ends, SNAP’s status remains complicated. Even if and when things return to “normal,” many people who are entitled to ...

More than half a million low-income Hoosiers on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Indiana will have to reapply for benefits, a more intense, time-consuming and costly process ...