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Removes a currently codified provision from the SNAP statute and adds a new rule that excludes payments, allowances, and earnings received by household members who participate in certain employment, training, or rehabilitation programs from household income for SNAP purposes. The bill also makes two small punctuation edits to existing statutory text. No effective date, appropriation, or implementation timeline is specified.
Amend Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014) by striking (removing) subsection (l).
Amend paragraph (18) of Section 5(d) by removing the word "and" at the end of the paragraph.
Amend paragraph (19) of Section 5(d) by replacing the terminal period with ", and".
Add new paragraph (20) to Section 5(d) excluding from income any allowances, earnings, and payments received by a household member for participation in: (a) any program defined in section 6(o)(1); (b) any program established under section 6(d)(4); (c) any vocational rehabilitation program established and defined under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and (d) any refugee employment program established and defined under section 412(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. In plain language, those payments will not count as household income for purposes of the Act.
Directly affected: SNAP/food assistance recipients and household members who participate in employment, training, or rehabilitation programs. For those households, payments, allowances, and wages tied to participation in specified programs would no longer count as income for benefit determination. That can raise benefit levels or preserve eligibility by preventing program payments from reducing benefits or pushing households above income thresholds. State administering agencies will face administrative work to identify covered programs, update policy guidance, revise application and verification processes, train staff, and adjust benefit-calculation systems. Fiscal impacts are likely modest but depend on how many participants receive excluded payments and how broadly the exclusion is interpreted. The bill deletes an existing statutory subsection; the practical impact of that deletion depends on what that provision previously required or prohibited, which creates some legal and implementation uncertainty until agencies interpret the change or issue guidance.
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Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced April 21, 2025 by Adriano J. Espaillat · Last progress April 21, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House