HR 762 · Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
- Introduced
- Jan 28, 2025
- Latest action
- Feb 28, 2025
- Sponsor
- Rep. Randy Feenstra [R-IA-4]
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food
- Cosponsors
- 1
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%).
Recent actions
- Feb 28, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
- Jan 28, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
- Jan 28, 2025 Introduced in House
- Jan 28, 2025 Introduced in House
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.