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The removal of soda from West Virginia's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin at the start of the new year.
People in the Mountain State will no longer be able to buy soda with SNAP starting January 2026. According to a press release ...
The state has now shared when soda drinks will no longer be available to be purchased with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds.
Bureau for Family Assistance (BFA) has received federal approval to implement a new restriction on the purchase of soda using Supplemental ...
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey joined the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy for the signing of a federal waiver ...
Some believe the Make America Healthy Again initiative isn't in the best interest of West Virginians, while others are all for it.
Earlier this summer, though, state officials split soda and hot food into separate waiver requests. This week, in an ...
Under the state’s waiver application, the drinks meant to be removed from eligibility for purchase through SNAP include ...
A federal waiver allowing West Virginia to remove soda as an entitlement under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was approved Monday.West Virginia G ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially approved West Virginia’s plan to disallow the use of federal food ...