Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act
Latest action · Feb 28, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Progress
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- IntroducedJan 28, 2025
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act
This bill requires states to recoup any overpayments of benefits made to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients and adjusts the formula for determining a state's liability rate for overpayments.
As background, the SNAP quality control system measures how accurately SNAP state agencies determine a household’s eligibility and benefit amount and determines overpayments of benefits and underpayments. States that have comparatively high payment error rates for two consecutive years are assessed a penalty (i.e., liability amount). The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) must use a statutory formula to determine the liability amount.
Under current law, FNS must set a tolerance level for excluding small payment errors in the calculation of payment error rates (e.g., $56 or less in FY2024). This bill reduces the tolerance level for excluding small errors to $0 for FY2025 and each succeeding fiscal year.
The bill also requires state agencies to recoup any overpayments of benefits made to SNAP beneficiaries.
The bill adjusts the liability rate formula to reduce the state payment error rate based on the percentage of overpayments recouped by the state. Further, the bill increases the multiplier used in the liability rate formula to 25% (from 10%).
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jan 28, 2025.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-IL | Mike Bost | Original | Jan 28, 2025 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 28, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
- Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House
- Jan 28, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 302 | Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act | Identical bill | Jan 29, 2025 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Agriculture and Food.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 28, 2025Introduced in House
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