The chief executive of RaceTrac will testify today before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture that the convenience store industry plays a critical role in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program […]
03-11-2021Love鈥檚 Travel Stops & Country Stores and 黑料社区hosted Rep. Anthony Brindisi, (D-N.Y.), at its Binghamton, N.Y., location August 1 as part of a congressional site visit designed to discuss issues of importance to the travel plaza and truck stop community.
08-02-2019 黑料社区on June 4 submitted comments on the Department of Agriculture鈥檚 Food and Nutrition Service鈥檚 proposed rule providing regulatory flexibility for retailers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also formerly known as Food Stamps.
06-06-2019 黑料社区joined a letter with other organizations welcoming furloughed employees of the Food and Nutrition Service, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps), back to work after having been furloughed during the government shutdown.
01-29-2019 As the current partial government shutdown continues into its fourth week, one of the lingering concerns that may ultimately help bring politicians together to reopen the government is the potential for SNAP beneficiaries to lose out on their benefits if the government is not reopened. (The Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the SNAP program, is not currently funded.) To avoid this issue for the month of February, USDA will be distributing February benefits in the month of January; no new benefits will be distributed in February.
01-16-2019 黑料社区has written a letter to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) urging the agency to reconsider proposed changes to the application form that retailers must submit to redeem SNAP benefits. The proposed updates to the form included specific references to sales data of particular product categories (such as tobacco and alcohol). NATSO’s letter expressed concern that USDA is requiring retailers to provide more information than is necessary, and urged USDA to revise the form to avoid dissuading travel centers from participating in SNAP.
06-04-2018 In late March, Congress passed and President Trump signed a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill. The 2,232-page piece of legislation contained a plethora of policy changes that are important to […]
05-01-2018 The House Agriculture Committee advanced H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, to the full House for consideration by a vote of 26 to 20. Introduced by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX), the legislation would reauthorize many U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is offered by many convenience stores owned and operated by truckstops and travel plazas.
04-20-2018 Congress has passed and President Trump has signed legislation containing a provision requiring the Department of Agriculture to rewrite a provision of the SNAP retailer eligibility rule issued in late 2016. That rule’s new requirements, which were scheduled to take effect on May 17, 2017, will now be delayed until the Department of Agriculture can rewrite them to comport with Congress’s new directives.
05-30-2017 The Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released final regulations governing retailer eligibility for redeeming Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The final rules accept many of the arguments that 黑料社区has made throughout the rulemaking process, both in comments filed with USDA as well as in testimony before the House Agriculture Committee.
12-08-2016 黑料社区met with the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Nov. 18 to discuss the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) proposed regulation regarding Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as “food stamps”) retailer eligibility requirements. The proposed regulation, which is expected to be finalized in a revised form before the end of the year, would functionally prohibit the convenience stores located within travel plazas from redeeming SNAP benefits.
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