SNAP benefits

Rep. Chellie Pingree has invited Good Shepherd Food Bank president Heather Paquette to join her in the House chamber Thursday night. Paquette said food insecurity in Maine is back to pre-pandemic levels.

Maine is one of 17 states working on potential models of the "Food as Medicine" concept.

About 100,000 Maine households received additional SNAP benefits during the pandemic, but it ended back in March.

Maine households that rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to buy food will see a reduction in benefits starting next month. That's when extra pandemic benefits will end.

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through December 11. While most…

Maine is getting federal assistance to provide food for children who receive free and reduced meals at school. More than 82,000 children will receive…

The Department of Health and Human Services says low-income Mainers will see a boost in food benefits and quicker access to the general assistance program…

The Trump Administration has finalized new rules that state officials say would make more than one-thousand Mainers ineligible for food assistance,…

The Trump administration has finalized a rule to limit food stamp benefits for single able-bodied adults who can't show that they work more than 20 hours a week, though legal challenges are possible.

Officials from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services say more than 44,000 Mainers would lose food assistance under a rule change proposed by…