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West Virginia’s plan to stop Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from being used to purchase soda will cost ...
West Virginia has been granted a waiver by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Service Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove soda from the SNAP.
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey has announced a federal waiver that allows the state to eliminate soda as an ...
Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, and West Virginia were granted new waivers to restrict the purchase of so-called “junk ...
A federal waiver allowing West Virginia to remove soda as an entitlement under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A Huntington market is the latest establishment in the Mountain State to launch SNAP Stretch.
Under the state’s waiver application, the drinks meant to be removed from eligibility for purchase through SNAP include regular soda, diet soda and zero sugar/calorie soda.
CHARLESTON — Federal officials have officially signed off on West Virginia’s request to end subsidies for sugary drinks for ...
The removal of soda from West Virginia's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin at the start of the new year.
Delegate Evan Worrell (R)-Cabell County, pushed to expand the funding, and this April, Governor Patrick Morrisey signed ...
In July, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued guidance to states to move ahead ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is calling on SNAP agencies across the country to release personal information about those ...