Waivers for Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and West Virginia were signed to eliminate soft drinks and candy from the SNAP program.

Colorado is the first blue state to have a waiver approved for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that limits the ability to buy soda and other sugary beverages, set to go into ...

Governor Patrick Morrisey announced a big change coming to the supplemental nutrition assistance program in West Virginia on Monday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has allowed Colorado to exempt sugary beverages and soda from being purchased with ...

Thirty-seven percent of our adults and 17 percent of our youth, ages 6 through 17, are suffering from obesity,” Reynolds said ...

Twelve U.S. states have officially adopted waivers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to restrict what kinds of ...

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday allowed six additional states to bar participants in the ...

A waiver has been approved to restrict the purchases of sodas, energy drinks, and candy using SNAP benefits in Louisiana.

U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins approved six waivers to exclude sodas and energy drinks from federal nutrition ...

Colorado isn't the only state on the list as part of the exclusions on what type of drinks can be purchased on SNAP benefits.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Oklahoma’s waiver request to exclude certain junk foods from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, called SNAP.