Committee rejects amendment to exempt cancer patients from SNAP work requirements
An amendment to ensure people undergoing cancer treatment would not lose SNAP benefits because they could not meet work requirements was defeated by roll call in the House Appropriations committee.
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Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida offered an amendment to ensure that people diagnosed with cancer or currently undergoing treatment would not lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits because they are unable to meet work requirements. She described the proposal as a narrowly targeted safeguard to prevent food loss for people undergoing active treatment.
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