119th Congress Agriculture and Food
S. 302: Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act
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Summary
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.
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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%).
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Katie Britt R-ALOriginal
- Charles Grassley R-IAOriginal
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History
- Introduced in the Senate by Joni Ernst.
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- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.