§2036c — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

Each State SNAP agency must, no later than 1 year after the date the Secretary sets during the 180‑day period beginning February 7, 2014, and every year after, send the Secretary a report for the most recently finished fiscal year showing it did not give benefits to people who were deceased or to people permanently disqualified. If a State does not send the report, the Secretary may cut up to 50 percent of the payments due under section 16(a) (7 U.S.C. 2025(a)) for that year. After a multi‑State pilot to test finding and stopping duplicate SNAP participation ends, the Secretary must, within 90 days, send the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry a report on whether expanding the pilot nationwide is feasible, effective, and what it would cost.

Title 7, §2036c

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(a)Not later than 1 year after the date specified by the Secretary during the 180-day period beginning on February 7, 2014, and annually thereafter, each State agency that carries out the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) shall submit to the Secretary a report containing sufficient information for the Secretary to determine whether the State agency has, for the most recently concluded fiscal year preceding that annual date, verified that the State agency in that fiscal year—

(1)did not issue benefits to a deceased individual; and

(2)did not issue benefits to an individual who had been permanently disqualified from receiving benefits.

(b)For any fiscal year for which a State agency fails to comply with subsection (a), the Secretary shall impose a penalty that includes a reduction of up to 50 percent of the amount that would be otherwise payable to the State agency under section 16(a) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2025(a)) with respect to that fiscal year.

(c)Not later than 90 days after the completion in multiple States of a temporary pilot program to test the detection and prevention of duplicate participation by beneficiaries of the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report assessing the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost for the expansion of the pilot program nationwide.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is Pub. L. 88–525, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 703, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 2014, and not as part of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definition of “Secretary” “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 9001 of this title.

§2036c Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation