The change could affect 40,000 Connecticut residents who will have to meet new work rules or prove an exemption to avoid ...

Connecticut will temporarily fund a federal program to ensure that young children, along with pregnant and nursing mothers, ...

R&B singers Joe, Ginuwine and Mýa will be performing at Foxwood's Premier Theater on Friday, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. The Amish ...

Thousands of people across Connecticut rely on food stamps to get their groceries, but what happens if their benefits get ...

WIC, which costs about $200,000 a day to run in CT and serves around 52,000 people, will continue thanks to an infusion of ...

As the federal government shutdown continues, Connecticut Foodshare’s board of directors has taken emergency action by authorizing $1 million in emergency ...

Though Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefits have not been ...

A nonprofit organization that helps get food to the less fortunate said it authorized $1 million from its reserves because of ...

The US government shutdown stretches into its tenth day, and, with no resolution from lawmakers in sight for Friday, will ...

The federal government may be shut down, but that didn't stop changes to SNAP benefits from kicking in on the first of the month, which is also the start of the fiscal year.

A U.S. federal program that has long enjoyed bipartisan support, serving nearly 7 million pregnant women, new mothers, ...