Student Loan Deduction Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2717 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2717

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to allow for deductions of 
                   student loan payments from income.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 4, 2025

Mr. Welch (for himself, Mr. Padilla, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. 
  Wyden, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Sanders, and Mr. Booker) 
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 Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to allow for deductions of 
                   student loan payments from income.

    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 ``Student Loan Deduction Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. DEDUCTION FOR STUDENT LOAN PAYMENTS.

    Section 5(e) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) Deduction for student loan payments.--
                    ``(A) Definition of student loan.--In this 
                paragraph, the term `student loan' means any of the 
                following:
                            ``(i) A loan that is made, insured, or 
                        guaranteed under title IV of the Higher 
                        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.).
                            ``(ii) A private education loan (as defined 
                        in section 140(a) of the Truth in Lending Act 
                        (15 U.S.C. 1650(a))).
                    ``(B) Deduction.--Beginning 180 days after the date 
                of enactment of this paragraph, a household shall be 
                entitled, at certification or recertification, as 
                applicable, with respect to expenses other than 
                expenses paid on behalf of the household by a third 
                party, to a deduction for the amount of monthly 
                payments made by a household member on a student loan 
                of that household member or any other household 
                member.''.
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