Illinois is facing potential penalties and lost federal funding due to its high SNAP payment error rate, which is one of the highest in the country and could result in the state being responsible for ...

A law signed by Trump last July expanded requirements for many adult SNAP recipients to work, volunteer or participate in job ...

Illinois now has the fifth-highest error rate in the nation for improper payments to recipients of federal food subsidies, and Gov. J.

In June, the USDA issued a memo showing how much states like Illinois would have to pay to sustain the SNAP program. And it ...

The cost of a policy change is often measured not in dollars, but in the meals that quietly ...

Illinois food stamp participation hit a decade low in May, falling more than 23% from the previous year, with new federal ...

When Dan Raskin arrived at work at 5 a.m. Monday at Manny’s Cafeteria & Deli, a line had already formed outside the Near West Side restaurant for a free meal advertised on social media for ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois residents on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may have to wait several days to receive their November payments. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois mother of four and food delivery driver Aubrey Lewandowski says she immediately started rationing the food she had left after getting a text alerting her that her ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson granted an emergency appeal by the Trump administration late Friday, pausing a ruling requiring that SNAP food benefits be fully ...