California’s food stamp policy is outdated. It is the only state that does not allow its 1.2 million recipients of federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to apply for the benefit. Many recipients ...

California’s food stamps program, known as CalFresh, provides monthly food benefits to low-income households. Benefits are distributed each month to CalFresh accounts linked to CalFresh EBT cards.

(The Center Square) – In the latest move to fund food benefits for low-income Californians, Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The ...

A car waits for food items at Interfaith Community Services during the food distribution in Escondido on Oct. 30, 2025. (Photo by Ariana Drehsler for CalMatters) California is committing $80 million ...

Californians who rely on CalFresh — the state’s version of SNAP, formerly known as food stamps — are seeing delays in their benefits because of the federal government shutdown. That’s leaving many ...

As grocery prices continue to rise and millions of Californians saw their food benefits disrupted this month, nearly one in three residents statewide says they or someone in their home has spent less ...

Food stamps were first issued in 1939 as an assistance program to prevent starvation during the Great Depression. But 86 years later, thousands of liquor stores and smoke shops have become approved ...

A woman who worked as a benefit assistant for a California county has pleaded guilty to scamming the state’s food stamp ...

With the recent U.S. government shut down, federal delays in dispersing SNAP benefits (called CalFresh in California) in ...