Overview

• The budget reconciliation package signed in July cuts about $186 billion from SNAP through 2034, the largest reduction in the program’s history.
• Expanded work requirements for people ages 55–64, parents of children 14 and older and veterans are now in force, altering eligibility rules immediately.
• Analyses by the Urban Institute and Congressional Budget Office forecast 22.3 million families will face average monthly losses of $146 and up to 3 million Americans may lose benefits entirely.
• Under the law, any state with SNAP payment error rates at or above 6% must begin covering 5–15% of benefit costs in fiscal 2028, shifting major financial burdens onto states.
• Food banks from California’s Latino communities to suburban Illinois project tens to hundreds of thousands of new clients and warn they lack the infrastructure to absorb the influx.