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The bill makes it easier for low-income seniors and people with disabilities to qualify for or receive larger SNAP benefits by excluding certain supplementary payments from income counts, while imposing modest additional federal SNAP costs and short-term administrative adjustments for state and local agencies.
Low-income households (including seniors and people with disabilities) who receive SSI-type state supplementary payments will have those payments excluded from SNAP income calculations, increasing their likelihood of qualifying for SNAP or receiving larger monthly benefits.
Seniors and people with disabilities will face simpler, clearer SNAP eligibility determinations because the statute explicitly carves out these supplementary payments.
Taxpayers may face modestly higher federal SNAP expenditures because excluding supplementary payments from income can increase benefit outlays.
State and local agencies may incur short-term administrative burdens and costs to update eligibility procedures and systems to implement the exclusion.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Makes a narrow change to SNAP (the Food and Nutrition Act) income rules by excluding certain Social Security Act supplementary payments from countable income for program eligibility and benefits. The change takes effect October 1, 2027. The amendment alters the income-exclusion list to explicitly exempt payments described in 42 U.S.C. § 1382e(a) (state supplementary payments of a specified type), adjusts paragraph numbering to add the exclusion, and updates a date reference; it creates no new funding or deadlines beyond the listed effective date.
Introduced January 8, 2026 by Peter Welch · Last progress January 8, 2026