Hunger-Free Future Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Hunger-Free Future Act amends the Food and Nutrition Act definition of the Thrifty Food Plan, the market basket USDA uses to help set SNAP benefit levels. Each reevaluation or update of the plan would have to avoid increasing food insecurity, defined as households lacking adequate food because they lack money or other resources to acquire it. USDA would still adjust the cost of the diet under the existing statutory factors, but it could not use an update that makes food insecurity worse. The bill is aimed at preventing future TFP revisions from cutting the adequacy of SNAP benefits in a way that increases hunger.
Who Benefits and How
SNAP households benefit because USDA must consider whether Thrifty Food Plan updates would increase food insecurity before those updates affect benefit adequacy. Low-income families with children benefit if future food-plan revisions protect the purchasing power needed for an adequate diet. Food banks and anti-hunger organizations benefit because federal SNAP policy would be less likely to shift additional hunger pressure onto charity systems. State SNAP agencies benefit from a clearer statutory food-security guardrail when explaining benefit-level changes.
Who Bears the Burden and How
USDA Food and Nutrition Service analysts must evaluate food-insecurity effects when reevaluating or updating the Thrifty Food Plan. Federal taxpayers may bear higher SNAP costs if USDA cannot adopt a lower-cost update that would increase food insecurity. Budget writers lose some flexibility to reduce SNAP spending through changes to the Thrifty Food Plan calculation. Administrations seeking lower benefit levels must show updates do not increase households lacking adequate food.
Key Provisions
- Requires each Thrifty Food Plan reevaluation or update to avoid increasing food insecurity.
- Defines food insecurity as households lacking adequate food because they lack money or other resources.
- Preserves existing cost-of-diet adjustment factors while adding a food-security guardrail.
- Protects SNAP benefit adequacy from updates that would worsen hunger.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires each Thrifty Food Plan reevaluation or update used for SNAP benefits to avoid increasing food insecurity while continuing cost-of-diet adjustments.
Key Policy Areas
Nutrition Assistance, SNAP, Food Security
Primary Purpose
Requires each Thrifty Food Plan reevaluation or update used for SNAP benefits to avoid increasing food insecurity while continuing cost-of-diet adjustments.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- SNAP households
- Low-income families with children
- Anti-hunger organizations
- State SNAP agencies
Identified Costs
- USDA Food and Nutrition Service
- Federal taxpayers
- Federal budget writers
- Administrations seeking lower SNAP benefits
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
Ms. Brown (for herself, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. McIver, …
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
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