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According to Massachusetts' SNAP program, 15 percent of the state's population (1,024,000 people), or 1 in 7 Massachusetts residents, receive benefits.

Hundreds of thousands of Massachusetts households will be getting around $150 less in their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits after March 2, as emergency pandemic payments come to an end nationwide.

New Bedford State Rep. Antonio Cabral has filed legislation that would provide cash and nutritional assistance for migrants residing in Massachusetts.

The Restaurant Meals Program will allow some Massachusetts SNAP recipients to buy food from approved restaurants and food trucks.

On November 4, Holyoke Community College will become the first community college in the state to accept federal SNAP benefits in its new convenience store.

Massachusetts EBT/SNAP rules kept a New Bedford woman from buying a hot rotisserie chicken from Market Basket. I kid you not.

The temporary suspension went into effect on February 23.

Able-bodied Americans should be in the workforce and not at home collecting benefits from government programs.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded nearly a quarter of a million dollars to the New Bedford Farmers Market.

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) _ A Worcester woman has pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of more than $3 million in food stamp benefits through a scheme she ran out of her convenience store. The Telegram & Gazette reports Vida Ofori Causey pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges including conspiracy to commit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits fraud and money laundering. ... Read M