This year alone, thousands of low-income New Yorkers have had benefits stolen from their EBT cards, which allow them to buy food at certain stores. “It was very hard,” one…
New York is among 20 states suing the Trump administration over the request, which advocates say will have a “chilling effect” on SNAP participation among eligible people in need. The…
“Food and housing are absolutely related,” NYC Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park tells City Limits. “When people are in a choice between paying for food or paying…
“The focus on cutting life-saving programs like SNAP as a method to reduce the government debt is disingenuous, at best, and self-serving and cynical at worst. Taxing the rich would…
Over half of New York City food stamp applicants are forced to wait for their benefits to arrive as staff at the understaffed Human Resources Administration fail to keep pace…
The city’s Human Resources Administration (HRA) failed to promptly process four of every 10 applications for the benefits during fiscal year 2022, when the rate of timely processing plummeted from…
