Summary: For the first time, some participants in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, are able to buy their groceries online. That's a leap forward for a program which only a few years ago was still issuing coupons. The Agriculture Department is running a two year test of online buying with the hope of expanding nationwide. For more, Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with the Associate Administrator for SNAP at USDA's Food and Nutrition Service Jessica Shahin.
