The concern for people struggling to pay for food is about to get more serious as CalFresh benefits for low-income families end later this month. The deadline will impact more than 2.9 million ...

Recipients of the CalFresh food program will see a significant jump in payments starting Friday — just as some of California’s major coronavirus-related benefit programs end. CalFresh benefits will go ...

CalFresh is California's Food Stamp program that provides crucial food assistance to low-income individuals and families throughout the state, to obtain resources to purchase healthy and nutritious ...

Economic shifts at the federal level are set to redefine social welfare landscapes across the West Coast in the coming fiscal ...

Below is a press release from the San Luis Obispo County Department of Social Services regarding possible delays in CalFresh benefits for eligible recipients. SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – The ...

It’s only been a month since the federal government shutdown caused the 5.5 million Californians who use CalFresh — the state’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — to see their ...

CalFresh, a federally funded food assistance program, is a largely untapped resource for California college students, a recent UCLA study found. Researchers at the UCLA Center for Health Policy ...

The ending of emergency food benefits this month amounts to 7.7 million fewer meals each month for San Diego County residents in need, research published Tuesday by the San Diego Hunger Coalition ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — Those emergency allotments from the federal government to the California's CalFresh program end Tuesday meaning families will see the last boost to their benefits on March 26.. As ...

A day after a KCRA 3 investigation found that the state's CalFresh and CalWorks programs are losing millions of dollars a month to organized crime, the Department of Social Services – which oversees ...

The California Food Stamps program is known as CalFresh and is designed to help low-income families and individuals obtain resources to purchase healthy and nutritious food for their households.

California, a state with the nation’s highest poverty rate, consistently ranks near the bottom when it comes to enrolling low-income people in CalFresh, the state’s name for the federal food stamp ...