USDA’s waiver table lists November 1, 2026 as the target implementation date for SNAP soda and candy restrictions in five states: Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia. The date is USDA’s listing, not a confirmation from the states themselves. Ohio has paused its start at the federal government’s request and named no new…

USDA’s SNAP work-requirements page prints two lists of people excused from the program’s work rules. Counted without duplicates, the lists name eleven exemptions, among them veterans, people without housing, pregnant people and young adults who aged out of foster care. The same page says USDA is still preparing guidance on how the 2025 law changes…

A new federal website, America.gov, is meant to become a single front door for federal services, and Medicare enrollment is on the list of tasks the White House says it will add later this year. IRS tax filing is expressly kept off the site. The plan was laid out in a Sept. 29 fact sheet…

Between a 90% rating and a 100% rating, VA’s 2026 schedule jumps by $1,576.28 a month. At 90% a veteran alone is listed at $2,362.30, and one with a spouse at $2,559.30. The size of that leap, and the add-ons that sit around it, make this row of the table look different from the ones…

Sixty percent is a rating with two jobs. In VA’s 2026 schedule it pays a veteran $1,435.02 a month, and in the department’s unemployability rules it is the single-condition threshold that can open the way to the 100% rate for a veteran who cannot hold steady work. The first fact comes from a table, the…

An 80% rating sits one step below 90% and two below 100%, and VA’s 2026 schedule prices that position at $2,102.15 a month for a veteran alone. With a spouse and one child on the award, the same rating is listed at $2,406.15. The number reflects a percentage that VA calculates, not one that anyone…

Eight states have already passed the dates USDA set for keeping soda, candy and other items off the list of foods that SNAP benefits can buy, and USDA lists five more states starting Nov. 1. The eight are Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. The five are Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South…

The 100% row of VA’s 2026 disability table shows how a household gets counted. A veteran rated totally disabled who has a spouse and one child is listed at $4,318.99 a month, while the same veteran with nobody else on the award is listed lower. The distance between those two numbers is set by paperwork…

Supplemental Security Income recipients in Montana averaged $670.74 a month in August 2026, the lowest state figure in the Social Security Administration’s monthly statistics. Recipients in California averaged $852.77, the highest, a difference of $182.03 a month. The national average across all recipients was $738.73. Table 8 puts the extremes $182.03 apart SSA’s table of…

One full calendar month in a nursing home or other medical facility can shrink a Supplemental Security Income recipient’s federal check from $994 to $30 when Medicaid covers more than half of the cost of care. The Social Security Administration states the $30 limit in its guide to living arrangements, and a 90-day exception can…