SNAP Benefits Fairness Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to repeal the limitation on the maximum deduction for shelter expenses allowable for determination of benefits under such Act.
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
SNAP Benefits Fairness Act of 2025
This bill repeals the shelter deduction cap for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit, thereby allowing a household to deduct all allowable housing expenses (e.g., rent or mortgage, electricity, and water costs) that exceed 50% of a household's income after other deductions when calculating net income to determine SNAP benefits.
Under current law, the shelter deduction is capped (unless at least one household member is an elderly or disabled individual), and the cap is adjusted annually for inflation. In FY2025, the shelter deduction is capped at $712 for households in the contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia.
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- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
- ASSOCIATED BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS, INC.
- FOOD RESEARCH AND ACTION CENTER
Bodies those filers lobbied
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Education, Dept of
- Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
- Army, Dept of (Corps of Engineers)
- Commerce, Dept of (DOC)
- Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 793: SNAP Benefits Fairness Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-793/
"H.R. 793: SNAP Benefits Fairness Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-793/.
H.R. 793, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-793/.
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