Governor Greg Abbott has asked for Texas SNAP benefit recipients to be prevented from spending them on soda and candy.

For March 2025, the USDA has outlined the maximum SNAP benefit amounts based on household size ... In states like Florida and Texas, the distribution period extends throughout the month, from ...

Texas has requested a waiver from the USDA to prohibit the use of SNAP benefits on unhealthy foods like soda and candy.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has requested a waiver to restrict the use of SNAP benefits for unhealthy and highly processed foods. The waiver request aims to ensure taxpayer funds allocated to SNAP ...

SNAP was created in 1964 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. Since then, it has evolved from paper coupons to modern Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and helped ...

Texas’ governor joins other Republican governors making similar requests to ban purchases of candy and soda through the SNAP ...

Greg Abbott plan, low-income Texans could use federal SNAP benefits to pay for healthy food, but not for low-nutrition, highly processed junk food. (Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune, Joe Timmerman ...