AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) - Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a fourth round of ...

AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - Governor Greg Abbott announced today that $308 million in emergency food benefits for December authorized by the Biden Administration would be provided to Texans. The ...

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The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has warned that unless the state provides urgent resources, it will lose millions in funding and face ongoing challenges to the efficiency of its ...

Food insecurity strikes a million or more Texans, but SNAP food benefits in Texas add a critical nutritional assistance that allows families to make grocery dollars stretch and eat healthy food. The ...

Texas has failed to meet a federal deadline to secure funds for the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program, leaving ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday, Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission extended more than $310 million in emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food ...

SNAP recipients will receive a larger monthly benefit starting Wednesday, Oct. 1. The maximum monthly benefit for a family of four will be $994, an increase of $19. The change comes as new work ...

Hundreds of Texas seniors lost their Medicare benefits after Texas Health and Human Services made an error in the Medicare Savings Program. The agency confirmed that ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas Health and Human Services accidentally removed 350 seniors from the state’s Medicare Savings Program, the agency confirmed, costing some lower income Texans as much as $200 a ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...