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 agency may only replace SNAP benefits that were stolen between the period beginning on October 1, 2022, and ending on December 20, 2024. Further, the replacement amount is limited to the lesser of the amount of (1) the benefits stolen, or (2) two months of the 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.
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1540 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1540
To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to expand the
replacement of stolen EBT benefits under the supplemental nutrition
assistance program.
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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
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A BILL
To amend the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to expand the
replacement of stolen EBT benefits under the supplemental nutrition
assistance program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Fairness for Victims of SNAP
Skimming Act of 2025''.
SEC. 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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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
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