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Gov. Eric Holcomb said he’s holding out hope that the federal government won’t shut down as a funding deadline looms this week, even as the state braces for it.

About 1 in 10 Hoosier families face food insecurity. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – also known as SNAP or food stamps – can help them get food on the table. But requirements to repeatedly reapply for SNAP can be difficult. This week, legislators gave the governor the opportunity to sign a bill alleviating that difficulty for a few people, but not all.

About one in 10 Hoosier households report difficulties getting enough healthy food with consistency. Indiana senators passed Senate Bill 334 Tuesday to simplify access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or “SNAP,” also known as food stamps, for people over 60 or who have disabilities and their households.

In Indiana, typical foster home placements and what are known as relative or kinship placements are offered different financial resources and supports. A listener in Lafayette wanted to know more about why there are differences in funding.

The maximum amount of money people can get from the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, increased 12.5 percent starting this month.

Enhanced federal benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP, have been in place since the start of the pandemic. They will end on June 1.

Families on food assistance in Michigan will continue to get a boost of almost a hundred dollars this month. That’s after Congress approved a continuation of a pandemic recovery benefit.

Indiana Republican lawmakers are poised to cut off extra food stamp benefits Hoosiers have received throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Senate committee backed off a plan to cut off food stamps to Hoosiers who owe child support, changing a proposed bill to merely a study committee topic.

South Bend’s Studebaker National Museum and The History Museum are now offering free admission to any visitor who receives federal food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.