TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 23, 2026

A court-appointed mediator signed off on the first phase of an improvement plan for Tennessee's version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), WPLN reports. A lawsuit filed last year alleged that the state was wrongly denying or cancelling benefits. Last week, the mediator approved the first phase of a remediation plan aimed at addressing systemic problems in the program, which serves about 700,000 Tennesseans and is administered by the state Department of Human Services (DHS). Early steps include providing tracking information for replacement benefit cards and revising rejection notices to clearly explain why benefits are denied or terminated. DHS says making that change on the web portal is going to take several months of tech work.