Illinois SNAP recipients face new work requirements starting Sunday
Starting Sunday, all SNAP recipients ages 18 to 64 in Illinois must work, volunteer, or participate in qualifying education programs for at least 80 hours a month to continue receiving benefits.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is operational again following the recent shutdown, but new requirements starting next month will change who can receive benefits and the number of hours recipients must work each month to qualify.
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois residents on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program may have to wait several days to receive their November payments. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to make full SNAP payments for November despite the government shutdown, which remains at a stalemate. The judge's…
ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 21 other states are celebrating a victory in a case where they filed a lawsuit to prevent the Trump Administration from accessing information on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. In a news release on Friday, Raoul said the District Court…