CalFresh, California’s largest food assistance program, helps provide low-income families and individuals who meet federal income eligibility rules with monthly food benefits. The program, known ...

According to the California Department of Social Services, CalFresh is federally mandated but state-supervised and county-operated. The amount each household receives depends on household income and ...

The CalFresh program, California’s version of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), continues to provide essential food assistance to millions of residents. This program plays ...

Some college students who were once automatically eligible for California's food benefits program will now have to apply before June 10. State officials are urging college students to apply for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign noting the acceptance of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards that are used by state welfare departments to issue ...

Many California community college students and University of California students are eligible for CalFresh, the state’s food assistance program for low-income Californians, but most eligible students ...

Nearly 5.5 million Californians are without CalFresh (SNAP) benefits since November 1 due to the ongoing federal government shutdown. The benefits are delayed because the federal government has not ...

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 ...

Assemblymember Alex Lee announced on Wednesday that $20 million in the 2026-27 fiscal budget has been allocated to restart the CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Program after the program paused ...

Few college students participate in the state’s CalFresh food program despite being eligible, according to a report published Tuesday by the University of California’s California Policy Lab. The ...

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 ...

UPDATE: This article was published before the Supreme Court on Friday at least temporarily allowed the Trump administration to withhold about $4 billion in payments for the SNAP food benefits program ...