# 119-s-302: Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act

119-s-302, Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-302
- Congress: 119
- Title: Snap Back Inaccurate SNAP Payments Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-29
- Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (R-IA)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Agriculture and Food
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**Requires states to recoup all SNAP overpayments and links state penalties to how much they fail to recover.** It would also eliminate the small‑error tolerance starting in fiscal year 2025 and raise the multiplier used to calculate state liability. - States: Would require State SNAP agencies to seek recoupment of any benefit overpayments and change the liability calculation so penalties reflect the share of overpayments not recovered. The bill raises the liability multiplier to 25% from 10%. - SNAP households: Would remove the small‑error tolerance and set that floor to $0 for fiscal year 2025 and each year after, increasing the likelihood that even small overpayments are pursued for recovery. - Program oversight and accountability: Would convert discretionary quality‑control language into mandatory duties and tie a State agency's payment error liability directly to its recoupment performance, shifting how federal quality controls penalize errors.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Sen. Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL] (R-AL), 2025-01-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (R-IA), 2025-01-29T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Tighter SNAP error and recoupment rules: cost, medium. This bill would change how SNAP payment errors are counted. For fiscal year 2025 and each year after, the small-error tolerance for excluding errors would be set to $0. For those years, the payment-error rate used to compute a State's liability would equal the State's payment error rate multiplied…

## Related bills

- 119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act
- 119-s-4378: Protecting American Taxpayers Act
- 119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act
- 119-s-3752: SAVE America Act
- 119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026
- 119-s-4189: INSULIN Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-s-302 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/302)

## Related
- [119-s-4952: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4952)
- [119-s-4378: Protecting American Taxpayers Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4378)
- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-3752: SAVE America Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-3752)
- [119-s-5025: Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-5025)
- [119-s-4189: INSULIN Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4189)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-302 (as of 2025-12-21).