This year’s historic government shutdown put a spotlight on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP - the means by which millions of Americans facing food insecurity put food on the ...

A Massachusetts native on the national frontline of targeting SNAP fraud says the Bay State’s “lax controls” played a large role in an alleged operation that obtained nearly $7 million in benefits ...

In Massachusetts, three quarters of working-age people who rely on food aid from SNAP are also employed, according to a new working paper from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Labor Center.

With the federal government reopened, Massachusetts SNAP benefits continue to reach far and wide, with out-of-state expenditures on the rise as the feds consider revamping the program to reduce waste, ...