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- § 2011. Congressional declaration of policy
- § 2012. Definitions
- § 2012a. Publicly operated community health centers
- § 2013. Establishment of supplemental nutrition assistance program
- § 2014. Eligible households
- § 2014a. Notice of change in State of residence of certified household
- § 2015. Eligibility disqualifications
- § 2016. Issuance and use of program benefits
- § 2016a. EBT benefit fraud prevention
- § 2017. Value of allotment
- § 2018. Approval of retail food stores and wholesale food concerns
- § 2019. Redemption of program benefits
- § 2020. Administration
- § 2021. Civil penalties and disqualification of retail food stores and wholesale food concerns
- § 2022. Disposition of claims
- § 2023. Administrative and judicial review; restoration of rights
- § 2024. Violations and enforcement
- § 2025. Administrative cost-sharing and quality control
- § 2026. Research, demonstration, and evaluations
- § 2026a. Healthy fluid milk incentives projects
- § 2027. Appropriations and allotments
- § 2028. Consolidated block grants for Puerto Rico and American Samoa
- § 2029. Workfare
- § 2030. Repealed.
- § 2031. Minnesota Family Investment Project
- § 2032. Automated data processing and information retrieval systems
- § 2033. Repealed.
- § 2034. Assistance for community food projects
- § 2035. Simplified supplemental nutrition assistance program
- § 2036. Availability of commodities for emergency food assistance program
- § 2036a. Nutrition education and obesity prevention grant program
- § 2036b. Retail food store and recipient trafficking
- § 2036c. Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation
- § 2036d. Pilot projects to encourage the use of public-private partnerships committed to addressing food insecurity
It is declared to be the policy of Congress, in order to promote the general welfare, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation’s population by raising levels of nutrition among low-income households. Congress finds that the limited food purchasing power of low-income households contributes to hunger and malnutrition among members of such households. Congress further finds that increased utilization of food in establishing and maintaining adequate national levels of nutrition will promote the distribution in a beneficial manner of the Nation’s agricultural abundance and will strengthen the Nation’s agricultural economy, as well as result in more orderly marketing and distribution of foods. To alleviate such hunger and malnutrition, a supplemental nutrition assistance program is herein authorized which will permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet through normal channels of trade by increasing food purchasing power for all eligible households who apply for participation.
That program includes as a purpose to assist low-income adults in obtaining employment and increasing their earnings. Such employment and earnings, along with program benefits, will permit low-income households to obtain a more nutritious diet through normal channels of trade by increasing food purchasing power for all eligible households who apply for participation.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of subsections (f) and (i) 1
Beginning on May 5, 2017, in fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a household certified to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is required to report in a manner prescribed by the Secretary if the household no longer resides in the State in which it is certified.
Regulations issued pursuant to this chapter shall provide for the redemption of benefits accepted by retail food stores through approved wholesale food concerns or through financial institutions which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or which are insured under the Federal Credit Union Act [12 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.] and have retail food stores or wholesale food concerns in their field of membership, with the cooperation of the Treasury Department, except that retail food stores defined in section 2012(o)(4) of this title shall be authorized to redeem their members’ food benefits prior to receipt by the members of the food so purchased, retail food stores authorized to accept and redeem benefits through on-line transactions shall be authorized to accept benefits prior to the delivery of food if the delivery occurs within a reasonable time of the purchase, as determined by the Secretary, and publicly operated community mental health centers or private nonprofit organizations or institutions which serve meals to narcotics addicts or alcoholics in drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation programs, public and private nonprofit shelters that prepare and serve meals for battered women and children, and public or private nonprofit group living arrangements that serve meals to disabled or blind residents, shall not be authorized to redeem benefits through financial institutions which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Credit Union Act. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, a center, organization, institution, shelter, group living arrangement, or establishment described in that sentence may be authorized to redeem benefits through a financial institution described in that sentence if the center, organization, institution, shelter, group living arrangement, or establishment is equipped with 1 or more point-of-sale devices and is operating in an area in which an electronic benefit transfer system described in section 2016(h) of this title has been implemented. No financial institution may impose on or collect from a retail food store a fee or other charge for the redemption of benefits that are submitted to the financial institution in a manner consistent with the requirements, other than any requirements relating to cancellation of benefits, for the presentation of benefits by financial institutions to the Federal Reserve banks.