For residents who don’t meet this requirement, the federal rule limits CalFresh benefits to three months every three years.

CalFresh, California’s largest food assistance program, helps provide low-income families and individuals who meet federal income eligibility rules with monthly food benefits. The program, known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lucy Gonzalez, right, and Felix Acevedo work in the produce area at a Vons in Torrance. As of December, 4.6 million people in ...

Some Californians may lose CalFresh food assistance due to multiple changes affecting eligibility for the program — one of which could impact hundreds of thousands in the state. Asylees, refugees and ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Rising grocery prices over the last few years and an end to pandemic-era public food program boosts have made it hard for many in Southern California to afford food for their ...

A new round of CalFresh eligibility changes takes effect June 1, bringing stricter work requirements that advocates say could ...

Over 5 million Californians rely on CalFresh benefits, and during the pandemic, many families were automatically bumped up to receive the maximum benefit amount. For many, that was at least an extra ...

Once, an extra $10 a month on government assistance checks kept nearly half a million poor Californians from being eligible for the federal program that puts food on people’s tables in other parts of ...