Ending the Cycle of Dependency Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Burlison
In Committee
Summary
This bill rewrites federal welfare rules by tightening and clarifying work requirements, most notably by establishing monthly work requirements for many adults on Medicaid while reshaping who faces SNAP work rules.
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- Families with young children keep protections. Parents or caretakers of a dependent child under age 6 are excluded from the Medicaid "applicable individual" work requirement, so they are not subject to the monthly work test.
- Working-age Medicaid enrollees face a clear monthly test. To meet it an individual must work or do community service or participate in a work program for at least 80 hours in a month, or earn the equivalent of the Federal minimum wage times 80 hours. The rule excludes people under 19, people 60 and older, pregnant people, those medically unfit for work, students enrolled at least half time, and others listed in the bill.
- SNAP eligibility and categories are restructured. The bill adds explicit age-based categories for people over 60 and for children under 6 and removes or redesignates several subparagraphs to change who is subject to SNAP work rules.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Medicaid adults face monthly work test
If enacted, some Medicaid adults would need to meet a monthly work rule. You could meet it with 80 hours of work, community service, an approved work program, or a mix. You would also meet it if your monthly pay equals 80 times the federal minimum wage. Under 19 or 60+, pregnant, medically unfit, certain caretakers, students half time, in treatment, or under other federal work rules would be excluded. If you miss it in three months in a year, federal funding would stop for a month, and your state could drop your coverage.
SNAP work rules and exemptions change
If enacted, this would rewrite who SNAP counts under its work rules. It would add “over 60 years of age” and treat “child under 6” explicitly. It would remove two listed items and strike a related paragraph. It would also repeal a 2023 conforming change tied to these rules. These edits could widen or narrow who is exempt, depending on your situation.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Burlison
MO • R
Cosponsors
Brecheen
OK • R
Sponsored 2/21/2025
Onder
MO • R
Sponsored 2/21/2025
Gill (TX)
TX • R
Sponsored 2/24/2025
Self
TX • R
Sponsored 2/27/2025
Hageman
WY • R
Sponsored 3/6/2025
Roll Call Votes
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