Restore SNAP Exemptions for Veterans, Homeless Adults, and Former Foster Youth

Veterans, homeless adults, and young people leaving foster care lost their exemption from SNAP's three-month time limit on July 4, 2025.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 25, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter SNAP Work Requirements Who must log 80 hours a month for food benefits now, and who is exempt

The Letter

Subject Please Co-Sponsor the SNAP Back Act (H.R. 5718)

I am writing to ask you to co-sponsor the SNAP Back Act, H.R. 5718.

In 2023, Congress excused veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and former foster youth ages 24 and younger from SNAP's three-month time limit. The 2025 budget law removed those exemptions on July 4, 2025. Since then, these adults can get food benefits for only 3 months in 36 unless they log 80 hours of work, volunteering, or training every month.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that about 300,000 fewer people in these groups will receive SNAP in an average month, even after new exemptions for American Indians.

The SNAP Back Act would restore all three exemptions. It has been waiting in the House Agriculture Committee's nutrition subcommittee since December 2, 2025.

Please co-sponsor H.R. 5718 so veterans and young people leaving foster care do not lose food assistance.

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I'm a constituent calling about SNAP food benefits.
The 2025 budget law ended SNAP's time-limit exemptions for veterans, homeless adults, and former foster youth. CBO estimates about 300,000 fewer people in those groups will get SNAP each month.
Please co-sponsor the SNAP Back Act, H.R. 5718, which restores those exemptions.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

July 4, 2025 the date the 2025 budget law ended SNAP time-limit exemptions for veterans, homeless adults, and former foster youth (source)
300,000 fewer veterans, homeless adults, and former foster youth on SNAP in an average month, net of new exemptions, per CBO (source)
80 hours of work, volunteering, or training a month that covered adults must log to keep SNAP past 3 months in 36 (source)

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