Houston Food Bank urging SNAP recipients to check benefit status as new requirements take effect

An organization that feeds one million people in the Houston area each year is warning that some could lose SNAP benefits because of new work requirements.  Under the program’s new work requirement, people 18-64 without dependents under 14 must work, volunteer, or train to work for at least 80 hours a month to keep their benefits. Previously, the work requirement’s age range stopped at 54, and applied to people without dependents under 18.  The rule changed as a result of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act President Trump signed into law last July.