Official Summaries

America Works Act of 2025

This bill expands the applicability of work requirements for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients who are able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs). As background, these SNAP recipients have work-related requirements in addition to the general SNAP work registration and employment and training requirements.

Specifically, the bill amends the exemptions to this requirement.

First, the bill applies the work requirements for ABAWDs to adults who are not over 65 years old, whereas these requirements currently apply to adults who are not over 55 years old.

Second, the ABAWD exemption for a parent or household member with responsibility for a dependent child is restricted to a dependent child under the age of seven. Currently, the child must be under the age of 18.

Third, the bill repeals the ABAWD exemptions for homeless individuals, veterans, and certain foster care individuals (those who are 24 years old or younger and were in foster care on the date of attaining 18 years of age or a higher age).

In addition, under current law, an ABAWD waiver program allows state exemptions based on an area having an unemployment rate of over 10% or an insufficient number of jobs. The bill amends the exemption to require the unemployment rate to be based on the rate for the county, instead of the area. Further, the bill repeals the provision that allows a state exemption if that area does not have a sufficient number of jobs.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1528 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1528

    To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to standardize work 
   requirements for able-bodied adults enrolled in the supplemental 
                     nutrition assistance program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2025

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Feenstra, Mr. Davidson, 
Mr. LaMalfa, and Mr. Finstad) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to standardize work 
   requirements for able-bodied adults enrolled in 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 ``America Works Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Amendments to the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.--Section 6(o) 
of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 is amended--
            (1) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
            ``(3) Exception.--Paragraph (2) shall not apply to an 
        individual if the individual is--
                    ``(A) under 18 or over 65 years of age;
                    ``(B) medically certified as physically or mentally 
                unfit for employment;
                    ``(C) is a parent or other member of a household 
                with responsibility for a dependent child under 7 years 
                of age;
                    ``(D) otherwise exempt under subsection (d)(2); or
                    ``(E) a pregnant woman.'', and
            (2) by amending subparagraph (4)(A) to read as follows:
                    ``(A) In general.--On the request of a State agency 
                and with the support of the chief executive officer of 
                the State, the Secretary may waive the applicability of 
                paragraph (2) to any group of individuals in the State 
                if the Secretary makes the determination that the 
                county or county-equivalent in which the individuals 
                reside has an unemployment rate of over 10 percent.'', 
                and
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 311 of title II of division C of 
the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (Public Law 118-5; 137 STAT. 36) 
is amended by striking subsection (b).
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