No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025

Bill: 119-hr-416
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cline, Ben [R-VA-6]
Introduced: 2025-01-15
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-01-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill requires all households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to meet the program's income and asset requirements, thereby eliminating certain alternative SNAP eligibility&nbsp;pathways.</p><p>Currently, a&nbsp;household may be eligible for SNAP by meeting&nbsp;program-specific federal eligibility requirements, which include both income and asset tests. A household may also be automatically or <em>categorically eligible</em> for SNAP based on eligibility for or receiving cash benefits from other specified low-income assistance programs (e.g., Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]). Under this categorical eligibility, households that already meet financial eligibility rules in a program like TANF are not required to go through a SNAP financial eligibility determination.&nbsp;</p><p>A&nbsp;majority of states also provide broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE), a policy that makes most households with an income below a certain threshold categorically eligible for SNAP. Under BBCE, these states typically make households categorically eligible through receiving or being authorized to receive a minimal non-cash TANF benefit or service (e.g., a pamphlet). A state may set its own BBCE financial eligibility requirements for a household so long as the gross income requirement is below a certain level. A state's requirements do not have to match SNAP program-specific eligibility requirements. For example,&nbsp;most states&nbsp;that provide BBCE&nbsp;do not have an asset test for SNAP eligibility.</p><p>The bill requires all SNAP households, including those that qualify under categorical eligibility, to meet the program's income and asset requirements.</p>

tv_txt: I 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 416 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 15, 2025 Mr. Cline (for himself, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana , Mr. Ellzey , Mr. Brecheen , and Mr. Green of Tennessee ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture A BILL To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to close the nominal benefits loophole.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025 . 2. Amendment Section 5(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2014(a) ) is amended to read as follows: No household shall be eligible to receive benefits pursuant to this section if it does not meet the income and resource criteria under subsections (c) and (g). . 3. Effective date; application of amendment (a) Effective date Except as provided in subsection (b), this Act and the amendment made by this Act shall take effect 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Application of amendment The amendment made by this Act shall not apply with respect to certification periods that begin before the effective date of this Act.