California’s food stamps program, known as CalFresh, provides monthly food benefits to low-income households. Benefits are distributed each month to CalFresh accounts linked to CalFresh EBT cards.

The year 2026 will bring significant adjustments for those who receive or plan to apply for CalFresh in California. These ...

California’s CalFresh food (SNAP) benefits are back on a normal schedule this month after November’s partial federal government shutdown temporarily disrupted SNAP funding, causing delays and ...

There were reasons the U.S. government moved away from calling its monthly food assistance program “food stamps,” but most people still refer to it as such. However, it affords its beneficiaries many ...

EBT theft is significantly down in California, new state data shows. Since the start of 2024, reported Electronic Benefits ...

The theft of benefits through the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) system has dropped significantly in California, ...

CalFresh benefits paused early November and restored statewide beginning Nov. 13, 2025. Merced agencies reported 32,000 households (67,000 people) affected. Local nonprofits and county launched ...

Organizations serving UCLA students have expanded their emergency food assistance programs after the federal government shutdown delayed CalFresh benefits in early November. Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

Every day more than 5 million Californians rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known here as CalFresh, to keep food on the table. It is our state’s largest anti-hunger ...

California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office warned that the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act could strip hundreds of millions of dollars a year in CalFresh food aid from low-income ...