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Amends Section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 by removing one subsection and renumbering subsequent subsections; also removes specified text in subsection (d)(4).
Conforming amendment to Section 5(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act changing a parenthetical reference in the second sentence.
Strikes specified text from subsection (i)(1) of Section 7 (issuance and use of program benefits).
Makes multiple revisions to Section 16(h), including replacing language in paragraph (1)(B), removing and redesignating certain subparagraphs, and revising clauses in paragraph (5)(C).
Amends 26 U.S.C. 51(d)(8)(A)(ii) by changing punctuation and wording in subclauses and removing a subclause.
Amends section 103(a)(2) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act by removing one subparagraph and renumbering subsequent subparagraphs.
Amends section 121(b)(2)(B) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act by removing a clause and renumbering subsequent clauses.
Conforming amendment to 42 U.S.C. 8624(f)(2)(A) by striking existing text and inserting replacement text (replacement text not specified in this section excerpt).
Strikes existing subsection (u); redesignates subsections (n)–(t) as (o)–(u); and inserts a new subsection (n) defining the 'low-cost food plan', establishing reevaluation timing, cost adjustments (household-size economies of scale, Hawaii and urban/rural Alaska adjustments), and annual October 1 price updates based on the preceding June.
Replaces references to the 'thrifty food plan' with 'low-cost food plan' in section 8(a) and increases the minimum allotment percentage in the proviso from 8 percent to 10 percent.
And 6 more affected sections...
Replaces the existing "thrifty food plan" with a new "low-cost food plan" to determine nutrition assistance allotments, sets a 4-person reference family for that plan, and requires periodic reevaluation and annual cost updates. It raises the standard medical deduction for benefit calculations, removes the cap on excess shelter expenses, and makes textual and cross-reference edits to remove a time-limit provision and conform related statutes.
These changes include a new $140 standard medical deduction for fiscal year 2025 (indexed annually to the Medical Care CPI), annual food-plan cost updates beginning October 1, 2025, and a required comprehensive reevaluation of the new plan by December 31, 2031. The bill changes benefit formulas and regional adjustments (including special treatment for Hawaii and parts of Alaska) but does not appropriate new funds in the text provided; it instead changes how benefit amounts and some deductions are calculated and how the statute is worded and cross-referenced.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Introduced September 11, 2025 by Kirsten Gillibrand · Last progress September 11, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Introduced in Senate