WORCESTER ― Once the state implements cuts to the Healthy Incentives Program on Dec. 1, a move administrators deem necessary to ensure the program runs throughout the year, Maria Diaz will not be able ...
We lend our voice to the chorus of advocates, farmers and Berkshire lawmakers calling for the full funding of the state’s Healthy Incentives Program. How could we not? The Healthy Incentives Program, ...
Our Opinion: Beacon Hill's funding boost for Healthy Incentives Program is good — and all too timely
Last year, we urged Massachusetts lawmakers to reprioritize the Healthy Incentives Program. We’re pleased to see the program known as HIP will restore higher benefit caps thanks to a spending bill ...
Some western Mass farms say new cuts in the state program that helps low-income people buy fresh produce is creating a financial crisis. Before the cuts, families with SNAP food benefits would get ...
Tevis Robertson-Goldberg, with Crab Apple Farm in Chesterfield, waits to cash out Christina Remmes, who was using her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to buy produce through ...
Massachusetts families who receive food assistance also qualify for extra dollars every month they can spend on fresh, locally grown produce. But that benefit will soon be drastically reduced.
Meghan Hastings, of Dave's Natural Garden out of Granby, talks with Thomas M. Kennedy of Northampton who was using his HIP funds to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at Grow Food Northampton's Tuesday ...
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