SNAP Access for Higher Education Students
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-01-28 — Closing the College Hunger Gap Act: cross-connection with closing-college-hunger-gap-act: Both address SNAP access for college students; this bill uses FAFSA data as the outreach trigger while the SNAP Access page covers underlying eligibility reforms. (novelty: 2)
- 2025-07-29 — EATS Act of 2025: EATS Act of 2025 (introduced) would remove SNAP eligibility restrictions for otherwise eligible students attending IHEs at least half time and treat such students as individual households, effectively restoring/expanding access after COVID-era exemptions lapsed in May 2023. (novelty: 2)