119-hr416

<p><strong>No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025</strong></p><p>This bill requires all households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to meet the program's income and asset requirements, thereby eliminating certain alternative SNAP eligibility&nbsp;pathways.</p><p>Currently, a&nbsp;household may be eligible for SNAP by meeting&nbsp;program-specific federal eligibility requirements, which include both income and asset tests. A household may also be automatically or <em>categorically eligible</em> for SNAP based on eligibility for or receiving cash benefits from other specified low-income assistance programs (e.g., Temporary Assistance for Needy Families [TANF]). Under this categorical eligibility, households that already meet financial eligibility rules in a program like TANF are not required to go through a SNAP financial eligibility determination.&nbsp;</p><p>A&nbsp;majority of states also provide broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE), a policy that makes most households with an income below a certain threshold categorically eligible for SNAP. Under BBCE, these states typically make households categorically eligible through receiving or being authorized to receive a minimal non-cash TANF benefit or service (e.g., a pamphlet). A state may set its own BBCE financial eligibility requirements for a household so long as the gross income requirement is below a certain level. A state's requirements do not have to match SNAP program-specific eligibility requirements. For example,&nbsp;most states&nbsp;that provide BBCE&nbsp;do not have an asset test for SNAP eligibility.</p><p>The bill requires all SNAP households, including those that qualify under categorical eligibility, to meet the program's income and asset requirements.</p>