Food stamps Coverage

WIC, SNAP programs could be impacted by government shutdown

WIC and SNAP are two programs that could be impacted by a lengthy government shutdown. More than 260,000 women, children and infants in North Carolina use those programs and could be impacted if the federal government goes into an extended shutdown.

WIC, SNAP among services that could be impacted by government shutdown

WIC and SNAP are two programs that could be impacted by a lengthy government shutdown. On Tuesday, Congresswoman Deborah Ross was touring the Western Health and Human Services Center in Cary.

Snap shares plunge 30% in the wake of quarterly loss, layoffs

Shares of Snapchat parent Snap plunged on Tuesday after the company reported a loss in the final three months of 2023.

5 on Your Side helps Wake County mom get SNAP benefits

After waiting weeks for her SNAP food stamps, a Wake County mom called WRAL's Keely Arthur to help make sure she could feed her family Thanksgiving dinner.

Wake County woman receives help with SNAP benefits to secure Thanksgiving meal

A Wake County woman is able to feed her family on Thanksgiving after WRAL 5 On Your Side helped her with the recertification process for her SNAP benefits.

Keely Arthur, WRAL consumer reporter

Judge: Google, Meta, Snap and TikTok must face teen addiction claims

Major social media companies must face allegations that their services addicted teen users and caused other mental health harms after a federal judge on Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss the bellwether lawsuit filed by a wave of consumer plaintiffs.

Hundreds of people waiting on SNAP benefits, delay causing surge for food bank services

Data shows people are receiving fewer benefits now than they were over the last few years. There's also a backlog in SNAP benefit distributions in Wake County.

Ali Ingersoll, WRAL Investigative Data Journalist

Backlog of SNAP benefits leading to some having trouble making ends meet

The Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina is working through a backlog in SNAP benefits in Wake County.

Fact check: McCarthy says welfare work requirements boost employment

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said May 28 on "Fox News Sunday" that "every study has shown, when you do that (impose work requirements), it puts more people to work."

Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact reporter

Extra SNAP benefits end today; affects hundreds of thousands in NC

Starting today, food pantries in North Carolina are preparing for an increase of people needing their help.

Extra SNAP benefits to expire March 1

About 900,000 households across North Carolina will lose out on additional SNAP benefits when they end on March 1.

900,000 households to lose additional food stamp benefits statewide Wednesday

A benefit hundreds of thousands of households have come to rely upon as inflation rises will be going away Wednesday.

Destinee Patterson, WRAL reporter

Snap’s bad news drags down rest of the market along with its own stock

The company posted a quarterly net loss of $422 million, compared to a $152 million loss in the same quarter last year. As recession concerns grow, Snap is finding it hard to convince digital advertisers to come onboard.

Snap tests a new subscription service: Snapchat +

Social media company Snap may be jumping on the paid subscription service bandwagon with a new offering called Snapchat+. Here are the details.

Snap - just like that - stock plunges 43%; other social media stocks plunge, too

With Wall Street unsure if Snap is an outlier or a canary in the social media coal mine, shares of Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Twitter, Alphabet and Pinterest all slumped alongside it.

Social media stock prices plummet following regulatory filing from Snap's parent company

The stock prices of many publicly-traded social media companies are taking a beating today, following a disclosure from Snap.

Apple's new privacy rules hammer Snapchat, its parent Snap stock plunges

Shares of Snap, which owns the popular photo and video app, plunged as much as 25% in after-hours trading following the company's earnings report Thursday. The report warned that its revenues had been affected by changes to advertising metrics on iPhones.

Study: Use of SNAP benefits led to lower health care costs for older people

Older North Carolinians who use SNAP benefits tend to have lower healthcare costs and make fewer trips to the hospital.

Fact check: In Senate primary, Walker slams Budd for vote on Trump farm bill

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker took exception when U.S. Rep. Ted Budd tweeted that he supports North Carolina's agriculture industry. PolitiFact fact-checks the Republicans, who are running for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.

Paul Specht, PolitiFact reporter

Fact check: Biden says hunger 'sharply' dropping after stimulus

President Joe Biden credits the American Rescue Plan for helping Americans recover from the pandemic and economic fallout, including those who have experienced hunger. "The Rescue Plan is delivering food and nutrition assistance to millions of Americans facing hunger," Biden said May 5. "And hunger is already sharply down in the United States."

Louis Jacobson and Amy Sherman, PolitiFact reporters

Tech toy video must-see: Snap pushing smart glass envelope with augmented reality

As Google Glass fades from memory, Snap continues to push development of the smart glass concept with Spectacles. The latest frontier is the addition of augmented reality.  Check out this photo and video.

NC food stamp benefits increasing

15 percent boost will last for six months as part of federal COVID-19 stimulus bill.

Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter

Work requirement for food stamps will affect thousands

Hundreds of thousands of Americans who rely on the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule that will tighten work requirements for recipients.

Does Trump administration want to cut food stamps to 3M people?

Over Thanksgiving week, a North Carolina Democrat drew attention to a Trump administration proposal that would cut the number of people who receive public funding for food.

Fact check: NC Democrat mostly right about Trump plan to cut food stamps

U.S. Rep. Alma Adams, a Democrat representing the Charlotte area, tweeted that a Trump administration proposal would cut 3 million people from SNAP benefits, which provide food for low-income and disabled people.

Paul Specht