In November 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins found that 500,000 people on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit were ...

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Payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will not be distributed until the government reopens, President Donald Trump said Tuesday in a post on Truth Social. "SNAP BENEFITS..

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also commonly referred to as food stamps, pays monthly benefits to low- and no-income households to help them buy groceries. Money is loaded onto prepaid ...

As the federal government shutdown stretched into late October 2025, social media users warned of potential disruptions to the federal government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which ...