A federal government shutdown will cause at least 800,000 Louisianans to face food insecurity. Louisiana residents who receive SNAP benefits will not get them in November unless the government reopens ...

With the end of the federal shutdown, those who get Louisiana SNAP benefits will see their full benefit amount. The elderly ...

About 800,000 low-income Louisiana residents won't receive food stamp benefits in November unless Congress reaches a deal to end the government shutdown.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the state will fund November food aid for children, the elderly or disabled who receive food stamps as the federal government shutdown drags on. Landry and Legislative ...

SNAP benefits were supposed to help families get through the shutdown. Instead, changing rules and partial payments have left many in Louisiana confused and hungry, unsure when help will come.

"All of the food stamp cards are going to be filled for the month of November," Gov. Landry said during an interview on WBOK ...

Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins said the $4,200 food stamp benefit should be enough to stockpile one month worth of groceries.

People wait in line for a hot meal at Grace Place Ministries Soup Kitchen on Jackson Street in Monroe, La., on Wednesday, Nov ...

Millions of SNAP recipients have been suffering whiplash this month, with a series of conflicting memos from USDA about ...

SNAP, or food stamps, won't be available to some 42 million Americans come Nov. 1. But what can you buy with SNAP? Only ...

A food drive at the St. Tammany Parish Government Complex will be collecting items Saturday for Northshore Food Bank.