# 2025-11051: SNAP Recipients Must Report Lottery Wins Before the Jackpot Changes Everything 2025-11051, Agency Information Collection Activities: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Reporting of Lottery and Gambling, and Resource Verification, is a Federal Register notice from Agriculture Department, Food and Nutrition Service published 2025-06-16, effective Written comments must be received on or before August 11, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-02). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11051 - As of: 2026-11-02 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-11051 - Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Reporting of Lottery and Gambling, and Resource Verification - Type: Notice - Agencies: Agriculture Department; Food and Nutrition Service - Citation: 90 FR 25203 - Published: 2025-06-16 - Effective: Written comments must be received on or before August 11, 2025. - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: yes - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-11-02 ## In one line SNAP Recipients Must Report Lottery Wins Before the Jackpot Changes Everything ## Summary If you get SNAP benefits and win big in the lottery or gambling, you have to report it because you might lose eligibility. States will work with gaming groups to spot big winners and keep the program fair. Comments on these rules are open until August 11, 2025, and this update aims to keep things clear and efficient without extra costs. ## Abstract In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection. This is a revision of a currently approved collection and existing burden in use in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This information collection captures the burden associated with the requirement that States make ineligible SNAP participants with substantial lottery or gambling winnings and establish cooperative agreements with gaming entities within their States to identify SNAP participants with substantial winnings. Individuals and households are required to report substantial winnings. ## Effects PRIA read - Report big lottery/gambling wins or lose SNAP: cost, high. If you get SNAP and win a large lottery or gambling prize, you must report the winnings to your State SNAP agency because you may become ineligible for SNAP until you meet the program's resource and income limits. The rule ties “substantial winnings” to the resource limit in 7 CFR 273.8(b). FNS est… - States and gaming groups must share winner data: cost, medium. States are required to set up cooperative agreements with public and private gaming entities to identify large winners using computerized data matching. FNS assumes 49 State public gaming entities and 196 private gaming entities will feed data (about 6,000 individuals per gaming entity) into matchi… - Resource checks in 9 States may add short paperwork: cost, low. Only 9 State SNAP agencies currently verify household resources as part of eligibility; 44 States use broad-based categorical eligibility and do not. 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