[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6582 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6582

     To exclude from income and resources certain Federal pandemic 
 unemployment compensation for the purpose of determining income under 
             the supplemental nutrition assistance program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2020

  Mrs. Hayes introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
     To exclude from income and resources certain Federal pandemic 
 unemployment compensation for the purpose of determining income under 
             the supplemental nutrition assistance program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Food for Working Families Act of 
2020''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION INCOME AND RESOURCES 
              DISREGARD FOR SNAP.

    The monthly equivalent of any Federal pandemic unemployment 
compensation paid to an individual under section 2104 of the CARES Act 
(Public Law 116-136) shall be excluded for the purpose of determining 
income and resources under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2011 et seq.).
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