To ease the burden, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program has extended its deadline for heating assistance grants.

The U.S. Treasury and Education Departments team up to improve federal student aid programs, tackling $1.7 trillion in loans.

The U.S. government is open again, but many low-income people are still waiting for federal benefits they count on. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which mainly helps ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

Congress and the administration must prioritize rooting out federal waste by leveraging federal data to prevent benefit fraud ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The government shutdown may not only affect food assistance programs but also other federally funded programs. Right now, there’s growing concern that the government shutdown ...

Thousands of low-income people living with HIV could be losing drug coverage as states impose limitations on HIV assistance ...

Crucial government programs that feed families and heat homes are among those that will start to run out of money on Nov. 1 as the federal government shutdown drags on. Democrats in the U.S. Senate ...

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While energy assistance programs serve thousands, families facing water shutoffs have nowhere to turn after pandemic-era ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - More than 40,000 people in Michiana who depend on SNAP benefits are trying to figure out how to pay for food amid the government shutdown, and the financial strain is ...