Homesome Partners with Forage to Accept EBT SNAP Payments Online

September 22, 2023 Forage

Homesome, the all in one e-commerce platform, today announced a partnership with payments processor Forage to launch SNAP as a payment method. Through this partnership, Homesome plans to launch SNAP with LaBonne’s Markets and expand to additional merchants over the next 12 months. 

FMI Endorses Senate Legislation Banning SNAP Processing Fees

July 24, 2023 FMI

FMI – The Food Industry Association welcomed the introduction of the Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions (EBT) Act (S. 2449) by Sens. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) and Peter Welch (D-VT), Members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, to prevent the levying of processing and other related fees on grocers for purchases made with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Forage Enables EBT SNAP Online for Tops Friendly Markets, Expanding their Partnership with Flashfood

June 28, 2023 Forage

Forage, a mission-driven payments company enabling merchants to accept EBT SNAP online, announced an expansion in their partnership with Flashfood, launching  EBT SNAP online for Tops Friendly Markets on the Flashfood app. With 1 in 8 Americans currently receiving government assistance to purchase food, and nearly 1 in 5 having received SNAP

‘Add Milk!’ Program Launches in Alabama, Boosting Purchasing Power for Low-Income Families Using SNAP

A nutrition incentive program that helps low-income families purchase healthy fluid milk products is expanding across Alabama. The Add Milk! program is being launched by the Auburn University’s College of Human Sciences Hunger Solutions Institute (HSI) and select retailers to provide a dollar-for-dollar match for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, when they purchase low-fat or non-fat milk.

NGA Foundation Tapped to Advance SNAP Online Programs

The National Grocers Association Foundation (NGAF) has been awarded a $5 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to establish a technical assistance center that will guide grocers through the process of implementing online Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) grocery purchasing.