The TPRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP plan to reduce trillion dollar tax reduction can also reduce billions of costs from social security programs, including food assistance for lower-income people.
The proposed changes to the extra diet support program would make countries take more of the cost, require several million more recipients to work or lose their benefits, and potentially reduce the amount of food apparatus in the future.
The legislation that the US House adopted closely may undergo more changes in the Senate, where it is currently being discussed. Trump wants MPs to send “a major law on a beautiful bill” to their desk until July 4, when the nation celebrates the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Here is a look at the food assistance program, the numbers:
Year: 2008
The Federal Aid Program, previously known as Food Stamps, was renamed the Program to Support Extra Nutrition or SNAP on October 1, 2008. The program provides monthly payments for low-income food purchases, which usually earn less than $ 1,632 a month for individuals or $ 3,380 a month for four.
The first food -stamp experiment began in 1939, but the modern version of the program dates back to 1979, when a change in federal law is in force to eliminate participants to buy food brands. There are currently no costs for the people involved in the program.
Number: 42 million
Just over 42 million people across the country received SNAP benefits in February, the last month for which numbers are available. This is approximately one in every eight people in the county. Participation decreases from the most piking average 47.6 million people in the federal fiscal 2013.
Often more than one person in a household is eligible for food assistance. As of February, nearly 22.5 million households were recorded SNAP, receiving an average monthly household advantage of $ 353.
Dollars: $ 295 billion
The legislation adopted by the Chamber is expected to reduce about $ 295 billion federal expenses from SNAP over the next 10 years, according to the Congress Budget Office.
Just over half of these federal savings will come by transferring the costs to countries that administer SNAP. Nearly one -third of these savings will come by expanding the job requirement for some SNAP participants, which CBO suggests that it will force some people to give up the rollers. Additional money will be saved by eliminating SNAP benefits for between 120,000 and 250,000 immigrants legally in the United States, which are not citizens or legal permanent residents.
Another provision in legislation would limit the annual inflation growth of food benefits. As a result, CBO estimates that the average monthly food benefits will be about $ 15 more than 2034.
Age: 7 and 55-64
In order to receive SNAP benefits, this law says that adults aged 18 to 54, who are physically and mentally capable and have no dependent persons, will have to work, voluntarily or participate in training programs at least 80 hours a month. Those who do not do so are limited to only three months of benefits for a three -year period.
The legislation adopted by the Chamber will extend the work requirements to those aged 55 to 64 years. It will also extend the working requirements for some parents without children, the younger than the age of 7. And this will limit the ability of countries to abandon the requirements for working in areas that do not have enough jobs.
The combined effect of these changes is designed by CBO to reduce SNAP involvement by an average monthly of 3.2 million people.
Percentages: 5% – 25%
Currently, the Federal Government is divorcing the administrative costs of SNAP with countries, but covers the full cost of food benefits. According to legislation, countries must cover three quarters of administrative costs. Countries also have to pay some of the food benefits, starting with the fiscal year 2028.
All countries will be obliged to pay at least 5% of food benefits and can pay more depending on how often they make mistakes with people’s payments.
Countries that have had payback rates between 6-8% in the latest federal fiscal year for which data are available will have to cover 15% of food costs. Countries with errors between 8-10% will have to cover 20% of food benefits, and those with errors greater than 10% will have to cover 25% of food costs.
Many countries can be hit at higher costs. The national error rate was 11.7% in the fiscal year 2023, and only three states – Idaho, South Dakota and Vermont – had errors below 5%. But the data from 2023 are unlikely to serve as a major year, so the exact costs of countries remain unclear.
As a result of a change in costs, CBO assumes that some countries would reduce or eliminate the benefits for people.
Margin: 1
Resolution 1 of the house containing the changes to SNAP and tax cuts, passed to the house last month with a margin of only one vote-215-214.
Voting can also be close in the Senate, where Republicans own 53 of the 100 places. The Democrats did not support the bill in the Chamber and are unlikely to do so in the Senate. Some Republican senators have expressed reservations about the proposed abbreviations of food and Medicaid and the potential impact of the bill on the federal deficit. The leaders of the GOP Senate may need to make some changes to the bill to guarantee sufficient support to surrender.