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.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced there will be no money to fund the SNAP food stamp program next month, leaving more than 88,000 Louisiana seniors and thousands ...

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

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 ...

In the past few days, the government shutdown has thrown the food-stamp program, formally known as SNAP, into chaos. On Friday, after the Trump administration said that SNAP was on the verge of ...

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.

Food stamp payouts will be distributed for most states within a day of the government reopening, USDA spokesperson Alec ...

Had the government shut down in 1958, when Dwight Eisenhower was in office, how many people would have been at risk of losing ...