History Shows Congress Should End SNAP Time Limits
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) changes that worsen time limits on food benefits for certain unemployed and underemployed adults were attached to the debt limit package (H.R. 2811) that cleared the House on April 26.
As the Senate takes up debt limit legislation, and Members of Congress continue working toward a 2023 Farm Bill, we need to set the record straight on the current SNAP time limit rules, how they were enacted and implemented, and why, instead of worsening them, Congress should pass legislation, the Improving Access to Nutrition Act of 2023 (H.R. 1510), to end SNAP time limits entirely.