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Boxes containing fresh eggs are displayed at a supermarket of Swiss retail group Migros, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Zurich, Switzerland June 24, 2020.

Food stamp benefits to increase by more than 25 percent in October

By Ashraf Khalil, Josh Boak, Associated Press

More Americans are going hungry amid economic crisis — and many can’t get help

The current economic crisis means rising demand for food stamps. While Congress has passed additional benefits for some recipients, a large percentage of the poorest households did not get an increase. Meanwhile, many people, from college students now at home…

By Paul Solman

Nationwide, 38 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the nation’s largest safety net program for food and nutrition, but the ongoing government shutdown puts access to food at risk. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Governors plead for food stamp flexibility amid pandemic

State governments and food security activists across the country are imploring the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make the food stamp program more flexible and easier to access at a time when so many people are losing their jobs and…

By Astrid Galvan, Ashraf Khalil, Associated Press

An immigrant woman holds a U.S. flag during a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization ceremony in the New York Public Library in New York, U.S., June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS19AZZ

Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

Advocates are scrambling to find other options to fill the needs of a traditionally low-income population.

By Anita Snow, Associated Press

How cuts to food stamp program could increase ‘poor outcomes’ for the food insecure

The Trump administration is making some major changes to the food stamp program, known as SNAP. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture finalized a new rule expected to end access to the benefit for nearly 700,000 people by enforcing…

How a proposed rule change could affect free lunch for some kids in need

By Laura Santhanam

The Trump administration reopened the comment period for a proposed rule that could alter categorical eligibility for food stamp benefits and cut off aid for an estimated 3 million Americans.

Here’s who could lose food stamps under Trump’s proposed changes

By Laura Santhanam

Under the proposed rule, 9 percent of households nationwide that currently receive food stamps would no longer qualify for those benefits, but that percentage could be much higher in certain states.

WATCH: Trump administration issues rules to deny green cards for immigrants on food stamps

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers will now weigh public assistance along with other factors such as education, household income and health to determine whether to grant legal status.

Trump proposal seeks to crack down on food stamp ‘loophole’

By David A. Lieb, Associated Press

The proposed rule change, outlined this past week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has highlighted the ideological clash between President Trump’s attempts to tighten government entitlement programs and efforts in some states to widen the social safety net.