How a fast-moving $50 cash relief program buoyed needy families when SNAP payments were paused

GiveDirectly got $50 gift cards out to SNAP recipients during last month’s shutdown through a new approach to cash assistance ...

Moore admin: Over 220,000 Maryland homes sought food, health benefits since July

More than 220,000 Marylanders have applied for food, health care and other critical benefits through the state’s centralized ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

How 'Trump accounts' for children work, and who will benefit most

You may have heard about new savings and investment accounts for children known as "Trump accounts." They got a big boost ...
Associated Press

Michael and Susan Dell donate $6.25 billion to encourage families to claim ‘Trump Accounts’

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Announced on GivingTuesday, the Dells believe it ...
University of Denver

SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development

About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are children under 18. This food aid helps their families buy groceries and boosts their ...
The Daily Gazette

Hochul highlights expanded child tax credits, new benefit for low-income families

ALBANY — Low-income families with newborns are now eligible for a one-time payment of $1,800 under a new state program aimed at improving infant health and reducing childhood poverty. The $8.5 million ...
The Conversation

SNAP benefits have been cut and disrupted – causing more kids to go without enough healthy food and harming child development

Jenalee Doom receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health. About 4 in 10 of the more than 42 million Americans who get Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are ...
Snopes.com

Did JD Vance get food stamps as a child? Unpacking the claim

As the 2025 U.S. government shutdown wore on in late 2025 over budget disagreements, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it would freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...
NJ.com

Trump VP JD Vance blames Democrats for looming SNAP benefit lapse: ‘That’s how a child behaves’

Vice President JD Vance blamed Democrats for the looming lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits when asked why President Donald Trump is not authorizing the use of ...
USA Today

Older parents, your kids may be able to collect Social Security with you. How it works.

Older parents can take advantage of a little-known Social Security benefit that could help them maximize total lifetime benefits, experts said. If you’re at least 62, you may be able to claim Social ...
Newsweek

List of Countries Offering Financial Incentives to Have More Children

Governments around the world are exploring ways to encourage people to have more children and reverse the decades-long decline in birth rates. A concern with fewer babies being born, especially in ...
THE WEEK

The two-child benefit cap: should it be lifted?

In 2013, the Conservative chancellor George Osborne introduced an overall benefits cap. It was designed to ensure that no household on out-of-work benefits (jobseeker’s allowance, housing benefit, ...