More than 30,000 fewer Kansans are receiving federal food assistance benefits, including more than 13,500 children, after the passage of federal cuts in 2025, and current beneficiaries must navigate a system riddled with delays.
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Extension Master Food Volunteers host regular sessions to help Douglas County folks apply for SNAP. Here is their July schedule, plus more summer food support.
Advocates have sounded an alarm about a report indicating 10,300 children in low-income families in Kansas stopped receiving food aid since Trump signed a sweeping federal law nearly a year ago.
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Lawrence Public Schools will offer free meals and meal kits to all kids in the community this summer, as well as special event days with storytellers and the library’s bookmobile.
Kansans receiving food assistance can’t buy soda or candy with those dollars beginning in 2027, Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday.
Melissa Sabin and dozens of others opposed a Kansas Senate bill that would aggressively expand the state’s process of verifying eligibility for Medicaid, SNAP and other public assistance programs.
Kansas doesn’t expect any problems after paying out full SNAP benefits on Nov. 7, the day before the USDA ordered states to “undo” paying the benefits.
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The Lawrence Farmers Market is offering anyone in need a $25 credit to spend on protein.
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Groups throughout Lawrence are offering free meals amid the ongoing uncertainty surrounding SNAP benefits.
After days of uncertainty about whether the federal government would release funding for food assistance, the Department for Children and Families announced Friday that it issued November benefits.
