Training and Nutrition Stability Act of 2025
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1Short title
This section would state that the Act may be cited as the Training and Nutrition Stability Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Training and Nutrition Stability Act of 2025 .
2Exclusion of certain income from employment and training programs
This section would amend section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (the law governing SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) to add a new exclusion from countable household income. Under the new rule, when a state agency figures out whether a household qualifies for SNAP and how large its benefit is, it would not count payments, income, allowances, or earnings that household members receive from a work program (as defined in section 6(o)(1) of the Act), unless that particular work program was established under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010, the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017, or the COVID-19 Veterans Rapid Retraining Assistance Program, in which case payments from that program would keep counting as income under this new provision. The same new income exclusion would also apply, with no exception, to payments from an employment and training program established under section 6(d) of the Act, a vocational rehabilitation program as defined under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and a refugee employment program established under section 412(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The section would also remove subsection (l) from section 5 of the Act and renumber the current subsections (m) and (n) as (l) and (m). A related change would update a cross-reference in section 6(s)(2) of the Act so that it points to the newly renumbered subsections (l) and (m) instead of the old (m) and (n).
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2. Exclusion of certain income from employment and training programs (a) In general Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2014 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (d)— (A) in paragraph (18), by striking and at the end; (B) in paragraph (19)(B), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (20) any payment, income, allowance, or earnings made to household members derived from— (A) any work program (as defined in section 6(o)(1)), unless the work program is established under— (i) the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Improvements Act of 2010 ( Public Law 111–377 ; 124 Stat. 4106) or amendments made by that Act; (ii) the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017 ( Public Law 115–48 ; 131 Stat. 973) or amendments made by that Act; or (iii) the COVID–19 Veterans Rapid Retraining Assistance Program; (B) any employment and training program (as defined in paragraph (4) of section 6(d)) established pursuant to that section; (C) any vocational rehabilitation program (as defined in section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3102 )); or (D) any refugee employment program established under section 412(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1522(c) ). ; (2) by striking subsection (l); and (3) by redesignating subsections (m) and (n) as subsections (l) and (m), respectively. (b) Conforming amendment Section 6(s)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2015(s)(2) ) is amended by striking (m), and (n) and inserting and (m) .
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