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HR 1198 · in committee · significant

Let’s Get to Work Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • This bill increases work requirements for SNAP recipients and applies similar work rules to public housing programs.
  • Adults aged 56-60 and parents caring for children ages 6-17 would be newly subject to work requirements.
  • The changes take effect upon enactment and reduce exemptions from work requirements across federal assistance programs.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How would expanding work requirements to adults aged 56-60 and parents of school-age children affect their ability to balance employment with caregiving or health limitations?

  2. 02

    What evidence supports the assumption that stricter work requirements will move recipients into stable employment versus potentially reducing their access to housing and food assistance?

  3. 03

    Which groups would gain the most from this policy change, and which populations might face the greatest hardship if current exemptions are eliminated?

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Sponsor · R-UT-3

Mike Kennedy

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Introduced 2025-03-14

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-14 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.

  2. 2025-02-11 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  3. 2025-02-11 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

  4. 2025-02-11 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  5. 2025-02-11 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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