Missouri is delaying its Healthy SNAP launch to Feb. 15, 2027, while encouraging families to apply for SuN Bucks summer EBT ...

At the center of the change is the Double Up Food Bucks program, which allows SNAP recipients to stretch their benefits.

Missouri is one of the states trying to steer low-income families away from using SNAP benefits to buy junk food. Lawmakers ...

Missouri lawmakers spent part of this year’s legislative session arguing that the state should steer low-income families away from buying candy, soda and desserts with public benefits. Then they ...

As Missouri prepares to limit what low-income families can purchase with public food benefits this fall, grocers say they ...

The launch date has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Social Services announced Friday that it ...

Missourians who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, may soon see new restrictions on what they can buy with the federal benefit. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in ...

Missourians who rely on food assistance may not get the full amount they were expecting this month. On Friday, the Missouri Department of Social Services said it would begin issuing full November SNAP ...

FILE - A banner reads: "EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) Accepted Here," at El Recuerdo Market in Los Angeles, Oct. 31, 2025, after two federal judges ordered President Donald Trump's administration ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday approved Missouri's SNAP food-choice waiver to support healthy food purchases and Missouri agriculture. The waiver, part of the "Make America Healthy ...

Currently under federal law, convicted drug offenders are banned from receiving SNAP benefits. A proposed Missouri House bill would opt out of the federal ban. Drug offenders in Missouri could soon be ...