States will pay a larger share of the food assistance program that served an average of 752,000 Alabamians last year.

"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 ...

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 ...