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SNAP Administrator Retention Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The federal government will pay 100% of states' SNAP administrative personnel costs instead of the current 50%.
  • State agencies that administer the food assistance program are affected, along with their employees.
  • States must use new funds to add positions beyond FY2024 levels and align admin salaries with federal employee pay scales.

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    How would fully federalizing SNAP administrative costs change states' ability to fund other programs with their current budgets?

  2. 02

    What evidence suggests that aligning state SNAP administrator salaries to federal pay scales would improve program efficiency or reduce fraud?

  3. 03

    Which states would benefit most from this funding shift, and how might administrative quality differ between high-capacity and under-resourced state agencies?

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Sponsor · D-NM

Ben Ray Luján

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Introduced 2025-05-22

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-05-22 · senate · IntroReferral

    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

  2. 2025-05-22 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in Senate

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