Recovery of Stolen Checks Act

Senate Bill

S. 2449

119th Congress

Recovery of Stolen Checks Act

In Committee

Introduced:Jul 24, 2025

Primary Sponsor

Ben Luján

D - NM

Cosponsors

2

Quick Stats

Policy Area

Agriculture and Food

Summary

This bill makes permanent a law that prevents SNAP (food assistance) recipients from being charged fees when using their benefits. It ensures that states and their contractors cannot add extra fees for things like fraud prevention or updating the system infrastructure.

Latest Action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Introduced7/24/2025

StatusRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

ChamberSenate

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Recovery of Stolen Checks Act

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This bill makes permanent a law that prevents SNAP (food assistance) recipients from being charged fees when using their benefits. It ensures that states and their contractors cannot add extra fees for things like fraud prevention or updating the system infrastructure.

Bill Number: 2449
Introduced: 7/24/2025
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Policy Area: Agriculture and Food

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Fact Sheet

Title: Recovery of Stolen Checks Act
Bill Number: 2449
Sponsor: No sponsor
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced: 7/24/2025
Summary: This bill makes permanent a law that prevents SNAP (food assistance) recipients from being charged fees when using their benefits. It ensures that states and their contractors cannot add extra fees for things like fraud prevention or updating the system infrastructure.

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Plain-English explanation of this bill

This bill makes permanent a law that prevents SNAP (food assistance) recipients from being charged fees when using their benefits. It ensures that states and their contractors cannot add extra fees for things like fraud prevention or updating the system infrastructure.

Last updated: 12/30/2025

Official Summary

Congressional Research Service summary

Ensuring Fee-Free Benefit Transactions Act of 2023This bill makes permanent the prohibition on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit transaction fees. The current prohibition expires at the end of FY2023.The bill also specifies that the prohibition applies to states (and any agent, contractor, or subcontractor of a state who facilitates the provision of SNAP benefits) for costs for fraud prevention tools, coverage of infrastructure costs, and other costs associated with updating the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) processing infrastructure.

Key Points

Main provisions of the bill

Permanently prohibits fees for SNAP benefit transactions, including fees for fraud prevention tools or EBT system updates
Applies the fee prohibition to states, their agents, contractors, and subcontractors
Extends a current temporary prohibition on SNAP transaction fees that is set to expire at the end of fiscal year 2023

How This Impacts Americans

Potential effects on citizens and communities

This bill would protect low-income SNAP recipients from being charged extra fees when accessing their food assistance benefits. It would ensure they can use their benefits without incurring additional costs, which could help stretch limited budgets further. The changes would primarily impact state-level SNAP administration and EBT service providers, requiring them to absorb certain costs rather than passing them on to beneficiaries.

Policy Areas

Primary Policy Area

Agriculture and Food

Scope & Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction Level

federal

Congressional Session

119th Congress

Citation Reference

2449, 119th Congress (2025). "Recovery of Stolen Checks Act". Source: Voter's Right Platform. https://votersright.org/bills/118-s-2449

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