Food Stamps

North Carolina’s Medicaid system is grappling with funding shortfalls, both from the state budget and from the Congressional megabill. The state Department of Health and Human Services says it will reduce provider reimbursement rates and cut coverage for popular weight-loss drugs on Oct. 1 after state lawmakers failed to approve additional funding.

President Donald Trump's megabill could cost North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for a federal food assistance program. Both the House and Senate versions of the megabill would shift part of the program's cost to the states.

The possible change involves a different inflation measure to adjust the poverty threshold annually. Anti-poverty groups worry that many low-income people would be pushed off assistance programs.

The North Carolina House is considering a bill that would increase disqualification periods for food stamp recipients who don't meet their work…

Some North Carolina residents who receive food assistance must now prove that they're working, volunteering or taking classes. The change was implemented…

Gov. Pat McCrory on Wednesday signed a law that makes North Carolina less friendly to undocumented immigrants by prohibiting city or county policies that…

Voters in the Triad will decide today between Republicans Phil Berger Jr. and Mark Walker in a primary runoff election. The race has divided local…

Voters in the Triad will decide today between Republicans Phil Berger Jr. and Mark Walker in a primary runoff election. The race has divided local…

State health officials say they have cleared an enormous backlog of food stamp applications that could have caused North Carolina to lose 80 million…

Officials with the state Department of Health and Human Services say they've made great strides in reducing a backlog of food stamp recipients who weren't…