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More than 136,000 low-income people in El Paso County are eligible for food benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Growing SNAP applications backlog leaves El Paso ...
Some states are quietly sunsetting emergency food and nutrition benefits, leaving the country’s food insecure — particularly older adults — in a precarious situation.. The passage of the ...
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a program that evolved out of surplus commodity donation efforts begun by the USDA in late 1981 to dispose of surplus foods (especially cheese) held by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). This program was explicitly authorized by the Congress in 1983 when funding was provided to assist states ...
Emergency allotments were authorized to help address temporary food needs during the pandemic for SNAP households. State SNAP agencies can issue EA payments on a month-to-month basis to all SNAP...
It also authorizes grants to states to help with the state and local costs of transporting, storing, and distributing the commodities to the appropriate local agencies and organizations. The program is authorized under the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 (P.L. 98-92, as amended; 7 U.S.C. 7501 et seq.). In addition to authorizing funding ...
He was formerly CEO of the National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED), which was based in El Paso, Texas. In late 2006, The Oregonian newspaper published articles alleging that Jones embezzled millions of dollars from NCED and, by extension, from the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Program, a United States federal program that helps blind ...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), which sends out benefits to Texas SNAP accounts once per month, has been experiencing staffing shortages. As of July, more than 300,000 SNAP...
The city of El Paso declined to extend its state of emergency related to the ongoing migrant humanitarian crisis. An Emergency Ordinance was first approved May 8, 2023, and city leaders argued it ...