Cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program started last week, stripping refugees and asylees of their eligibility in Vermont. On Oct. 1, 119 refugee and asylee households in the ...

As planned, Vermont started issuing food stamp benefits for the first half of November at the end of last week, including the week's worth of money that was delayed after the U.S. Department of ...

Vermont will use over $6 million in contingency money to pay for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits through the first half of November if the federal shutdown continues and no dollars ...

Vermont legislators are introducing a bill to phase out state income tax on Social Security benefits. In other words: retired ...

While most states send out SNAP payments on a rolling basis throughout the month, Vermont sends food stamps out to every SNAP-participating household on the 1st of the month. A household of one can ...

"Across political lines and communities, Vermonters agree: young families should be able to afford to live and work here. The good news is, our investments in child care are moving ...

The majority of Vermont residents are familiar with both electronic health records and the state’s health information exchange, according to a recent survey from nonprofit Vermont Information ...

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MONTPELIER — In an amicus brief filed at the Vermont Supreme Court last week, the ACLU of Vermont asserted that the state may not withhold unemployment benefits from individuals simply because they ...