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The bill increases access to workforce services and provides benefit-vs-earnings tools to help SNAP recipients work, but it shifts limited SNAP administrative resources and risks uneven or misleading implementation across states.
Low-income SNAP households and unemployed/underemployed participants gain coordinated access to WIOA employment and training services (outreach, referrals, job training and placement) that can increase earnings and employment prospects.
Low-income SNAP participants can use a publicly available online calculator to compare current benefits with potential earnings, helping them make more informed work decisions.
State agencies may receive administrative reimbursement for developing/operating the tool and can use public tools to streamline outreach and reduce caseworker time answering routine benefit-vs-earnings questions, easing local workload and budget pressure.
Uneven state implementation and variable tool design/quality could produce unequal access across states and misleading benefit‑vs‑earnings comparisons that lead participants to make poor program or work decisions.
Using SNAP administrative funds for recruitment and training activities may reduce resources available for eligibility administration and fraud prevention at the state level.
SNAP participants already enrolled in TANF or State Employment First programs are excluded from the coordinated services, leaving some needy individuals ineligible for these benefits.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Allows states to use SNAP administrative funds to recruit certain SNAP participants into WIOA Title I services and authorizes an optional online employment calculator as an administrative cost.
Official title: Amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to authorize funds for certain employment and training activities, and for other purposes.
Introduced May 15, 2025 by John Peter Ricketts · Last progress May 15, 2025
Allows State SNAP agencies to identify and recruit certain SNAP participants into WIOA Title I employment and training services using SNAP administrative funds, and permits states to build a public online employment calculator to let SNAP participants compare current benefits with potential earnings. Defines which SNAP household members qualify as "covered individuals" for WIOA recruitment (must live in a SNAP household, meet or be exempt from SNAP participation rules, be unemployed or underemployed, not receive TANF, and not be enrolled in a State Employment First program). The employment calculator is optional and explicitly classified as an allowable SNAP administrative cost.