Newsweek has contacted the Ohio Department of Public Safety via email for comment. Why It Matters. SNAP benefits provide food ...

Brandon Bell/Getty Images Some have argued that SNAP's allowance for people to buy sugary snacks, soda and junk food using the benefits promotes unhealthy eating habits, which can lead to obesity ...

About 850,000 Marylanders use SNAP, according to the Maryland Department of Human Services. “If someone wants to buy junk food on their own dime, that’s up to them,” Breechen said.

Food stamp recipients could be prevented from purchasing soft drinks, candy, ice cream and more under a new House bill. Rep. Josh Brecheen, R-Oklahoma, introduced the Healthy SNAP Act last week.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has called for reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) via a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and ...

It also would allow participants to use benefits to buy hot rotisserie chicken, which is excluded from the program now under the SNAP program's longstanding ban on hot foods. Food stamp recipients ...

Garth says that most people she meets while doing this line of research use food stamps to buy fresh fruit and vegetables on deals. “The stereotype that people who are on SNAP are just eating ...

Elzinga says instead, lawmakers should invest more in the “Double Up Food Bucks” program. It gives SNAP recipients an incentive to buy locally grown fruits and vegetables.