MAYVILLE – Chautauqua County leaders are going to have a meeting regarding the suspension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as well as heating benefits, due to the government shutdown.

The federal funding will not be available starting Saturday for thousands of Massachusetts families because of the shutdown.

Last year, HEAP funding helped 159,000 households in the state with 54 percent of those serving seniors on a fixed-income ...

Massachusetts warns of heating assistance being frozen due to federal shutdown, but reallocates $13 million for emergencies ...

The Home Energy Assistance Program, or HEAP, is also on hold due to the shutdown. That program affects some 1.5 million New Yorkers. Kyra Hynes, who is Gov. Kathy Hochul’s director of federal affairs ...

New York State Senate Republicans are urging U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to ...

The federal government remains shut down, leaving many relying on state and federal aid like SNAP and HEAP in limbo, but state lawmakers are curbing those effects with short-term funding.

BATH — Steuben County officials are joining with officials in counties across New York and the nation in urging Congress and ...

Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger announced Thursday that the county and the Community Foundation of the Hudson Valley will ...

REACH SNAP RECIPIENTS. OFFICIALS SAY IT WILL TAKE ABOUT A WEEK TO GET THE PROGRAM UP AND RUNNING. IN NEW YORK STATE... MORE ...

The federal shutdown is delaying heating assistance applications in NY, affecting low-income families in need of the HEAP ...