{"id":226773,"date":"2026-03-30T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:06:07","slug":"texas-families-using-snap-cant-buy-these-items-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226773\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas families using SNAP can&#8217;t buy these items anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers have noticed the signs H-E-B has rolled out at its stores. Lori Mendez told MySA she saw the displays while shopping at the store at SW Military Drive and Pleasanton Road on Monday, March 23. She said she also received coupons with the reminder on the back of them.<\/p>\n<p>H-E-B isn&#8217;t alone in this. The SNAP changes apply to all locations that accept it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SNAP benefits are typically eligible for people in low-income households, according to HHSC. Also eligible for SNAP are households in which all members are either older adults (age 60 and older).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SNAP food benefits are put on a Lone Star Card and can be used like a debit card at any store that accepts SNAP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoppers have noticed the signs H-E-B has rolled out at its stores. Lori Mendez told MySA she saw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[847,820,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-226773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-mysanews","9":"tag-mysastaff","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}