The budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) made sweeping changes and drastic cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). One of these changes breaks the longstanding link between receipt of Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) fuel assistance and automatic access to the Standard Utility Allowance (SUA) for many SNAP households.
This change is expected to cut SNAP benefits for more than 670,000 households, forcing families to divert limited resources away from food to cover basic utility costs.
Learn how advocates can work to minimize harm and ensure households can continue to access the food they need by taking proactive steps in FRAC’s new fact sheet. See the Heat and Eat technical notes here.