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Legislative History of the Food Stamp Program  - 1972

Additional information concerning public laws, if enacted after 1972, may be located at: http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d110/d110laws.html. The reference number (e.g. P.L. 95-113) identifies the Congress (numbers to the left of the hyphen) and the statute (numbers to the right of the hyphen). Laws enacted prior to 1973 are not on this web site.
Social Security Amendments of 1972
P.L. 92-603, 86 Stat. 1329-1493
Oct. 30, 1972
 
Prohibited any person who is eligible (or upon application would be eligible) to receive SSI benefits under title XVI of such Act to be considered to be a member of a household or an elderly person for purposes of the FSA.
Amended definition of "State agency" to mean the agency of State government which is designated by the Secretary for purposes of carrying out the FSA in such State.
Deleted P.L. 91-671 amendment providing that PA applicants for FSP benefits be certified for eligibility solely by execution of an affidavit by the member of such household making application.
Mandated that State agencies undertake the certification of applicant households in accordance with the general procedures and personnel standards "prescribed by the Secretary in the regulations issued pursuant to this act". Had been "used by them in the certification of applicants for benefits under the federally aided public assistance programs".
Deleted P.L. 91-671 amendment allowing households to have the charges, if any, for their coupon allotment deducted from any grant or payment such household may be entitled to receive under any federally aided public assistance program and have their coupon allotment distributed to them with such grant or payment.
Deleted P.L. 91-671 amendment stating that no person shall be charged with a violation of this or any other Act, or of any regulation issued under this or any other Act, or of any State plan of operation on the basis of any statements or information contained in a filed PA affidavit, except for fraud.
 

Last modified: 02/01/2008