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WEST VIRGINIA
Starts: 1/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of soda.

https://dhhr.wv.gov/News/2025/Pages/-Public-Announcement-West-Virginia-to-Implement-SNAP-Soda-Restriction-Beginning-January-1,-2026.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawMXXzlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFRRDBkUG1xWVNnUFhoYXVXAR6uuD76ctllJ-52Acr1N2YeOmI_9SjbA3l7ef6pgXUnMUcxFtX-4skJJmusdA_aem_HsQm6HKfnrauYHYm13eNxA

TEXAS
Starts: 4/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of sweetened drinks and candy.
Additional Notes : These items include energy drinks, sweetened and carbonated beverages, candy, potato or corn chips, and cookies. The policy draws a clear line between foods that offer substantial nutritional benefits and those that contribute to poor health outcomes such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
However, not all beverages or packaged goods are excluded. Milk and plant-based milk alternatives such as soy, almond, and rice milk will still be eligible, along with beverages that contain only non-caloric sweeteners and have no added sugars. The law also preserves access to fruit and vegetable juices without added sugar, infant formula, and medically necessary nutritional products.

OKLAHOMA
Starts: 1/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of soft drinks and candy.
Additional Notes : The change, effective Jan. 1, 2026, prohibits the use of the program to purchase items such as chocolate bars, hard candies, gummies, caramels, taffy, licorice, mints and chewing gum.
It would not prohibit the purchase of baked goods, such as cakes, muffins, brownies, pastries and bread.
Prohibited items also include carbonated sodas, energy and sports drinks, sweetened teas and lemonades and flavored waters with sweeteners.
Coffee, unsweetened tea, milk and certain fruit and vegetable juices would not be prohibited.

LOUISIANA
Starts: 1/15/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of soft drinks, energy drinks, and candy.
Additional Notes : The State plans to allow Hot Rotisserie Chicken to be EBT approved but since hot foods are typically not allowed, they are not sure how this will be implemented quite yet.

https://www.nola.com/news/healthcare_hospitals/louisiana-snap-ban-junk-food/article_7aedcf98-e1d2-499e-83c4-ee35b5bede42.amp.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawMXXqdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFRRDBkUG1xWVNnUFhoYXVXAR5JmVPdVwOOW7Cpd-1_pCc3dM1VoR0DaHtoptH8g8DgSoV74Hk0mG4lb1N9wg_aem_eOoZOOMYcaWIeH37wdhuKw

IOWA
Starts: 1/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts all taxable food items as defined by the Iowa Department of Revenue except food producing plants and seeds for food producing plants.

COLORADO
Starting: 3/1/2026
Restricts: Restricts purchase of soft drinks.
Additional Notes : The State plans to allow Hot Rotisserie Chicken to be EBT approved but since hot foods are typically not allowed, they are not sure how this will be implemented quite yet.

https://governorsoffice.colorado.gov/governor/news/governor-polis-statement-federal-approval-colorados-snap-waiver-support-healthy-eating?fbclid=IwY2xjawMXXgpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFRRDBkUG1xWVNnUFhoYXVXAR78E8lsOHiijVew1IVjjmIJjufRC5jn1qZJ4axDsa0zETBv011HNhuvbbhFxg_aem_AYmSSz1W6HHJkfMYD7bYlA

Do you know that feeling when, after a good time, the world comes crashing down even harder than expected?
I wish it were just the blues after one of the best times I've ever had, but somehow the shit just keeps piling up every day.

Not only do I have a lot of work to do, but I also have to compensate for three people, and instead of support, I only get statements that downplay the actual workload, and I just end up angry, exhausted, and “done” with my job.

On top of that, there is a current family disaster that I am currently unable to deal with mentally, so I am completely withdrawing.
Unfortunately, it is so severe that it completely paralyzes me.
I want to be there for my family, but I can't.
My head is screaming to escape, but I don't know where to go anymore.
With every breath I take, it feels as if the air is made of lead.