"We're paying for Medicaid care for a problem we facilitated with [food stamps] and taxpayers are getting hit both ways," ...

Alabama is on the verge of a significant change in the use of SNAP benefits, aiming to promote healthier habits by ...

Alabama lawmakers want to ban SNAP users from buying sugary drinks, fueling debate over health, personal choice, and government control.

Lawmakers in Alabama are considering a proposal to require some food stamp recipients to take drug tests. Under the bill, a person applying for or receiving benefits under the Supplemental ...

In Alabama, more than 300,000 Alabama households depend on SNAP to help put food on the table, with an average benefit of just $6 per day. Roughly 40 percent of these families include seniors or ...

WASHINGTON — Alabama could have to pay millions of dollars each year to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) under a Republican proposal to cut money from the ...