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Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-04-30
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Agriculture and Food

What it does

Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025 This bill requires the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to provide for the replacement of the full amount of a household's stolen benefits. 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 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. Under current law, a state ag
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1Short title

This section would let the Act be referred to as the Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025.

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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fairness for Victims of SNAP Skimming Act of 2025 .

2Replacement of stolen EBT benefits

Section 501(b)(2) of division HH of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (7 U.S.C. 2016a(b)(2)) sets rules for replacing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that are stolen from a household's EBT (electronic benefit transfer) account, such as through card skimming. This section would strike the current subparagraph (A) of that paragraph and replace it with a new rule: the amount replaced shall be equal to the amount of benefits stolen from the household. This section would also strike subparagraph (C) of the same paragraph, removing whatever requirement it contained, and would remove the word 'and' from the end of subparagraph (B) as a conforming change to reflect that subparagraph (C) no longer follows it. The bill text does not include the current wording of subparagraphs (B) or (C), so the specific content of the requirement that remains in subparagraph (B), and of the requirement that was eliminated from subparagraph (C), cannot be stated here.

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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).

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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-04-30

In the House.

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The numbers

2%
of bills introduced became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=16,213)
13
sponsors, out of 218 needed to pass
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. (2025-04-30).