[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 351 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 351

To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude from income, for 
 the purpose of determining eligibility and benefits, income received 
  from cost of living adjustments made under titles II and XVI of the 
  Social Security Act and from supplementary payments received under 
                       section 1616 of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 2021

    Ms. Moore of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exclude from income, for 
 the purpose of determining eligibility and benefits, income received 
  from cost of living adjustments made under titles II and XVI of the 
  Social Security Act and from supplementary payments received under 
                       section 1616 of such Act.

    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 ``COLA's Don't Count Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

    Section 5(d) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2014(d)) of such Act--
            (1) in paragraph (18) by striking ``and'' at the end,
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (19) as paragraph (20), and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (18) the following:
            ``(19) income attributable to cost of living adjustments 
        received under title II or XVI of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 401 et seq.), and supplementary payments received under 
        section 1616 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1382e); and''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on 
October 1, 2021.
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