Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025

Bill: 119-s-1540
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]
Introduced: 2025-04-30
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Latest action: action_date: 2025-04-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-04-30
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill requires the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to provide for the replacement of the full amount of a household's stolen benefits.</p><p>Specifically, using funds provided by the Department of Agriculture, a state agency must provide a household with replacement SNAP benefits equal to the amount of benefits&nbsp;stolen through card skimming, card cloning, or similar fraudulent methods. This requirement applies if the state agency determines that the benefits were stolen and meets certain requirements.&nbsp;</p><p>Under current law, a state agency may only replace SNAP benefits that were stolen between the period beginning on October 1, 2022, and ending on December 20, 2024. Further,&nbsp;the replacement amount is limited to the lesser of the amount of (1) the benefits stolen, or (2) two months of the&nbsp;household's monthly allotment immediately prior to the date on which the benefits were stolen. Thus, this bill permanently extends the provision and provides for the replacement of the full amount of the benefits stolen.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1540 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 30, 2025 Mr. Fetterman (for himself, Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Blumenthal , Ms. Alsobrooks , Mr. Wyden , and Mr. Welch ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry A BILL To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to expand the replacement of stolen EBT benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025 . 2. Replacement of stolen EBT benefits Section 501(b)(2) of division HH of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 ( 7 U.S.C. 2016a(b)(2) ) is amended— (1) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the following: (A) shall be equal to the amount of benefits stolen from the household; and ; (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking and at the end; and (3) by striking subparagraph (C).