MEALS Act of 2025

This bill focuses on protecting Summer EBT benefits, which are electronic grocery benefits given to families with eligible children during the summer months, from being stolen through methods like card skimming or cloning. It requires the Food and Nutrition Service to set up fraud prevention rules and ensure that if a student's benefits are stolen, the full amount is replaced. State agencies that run the program must follow new security measures and create procedures for replacing stolen benefits. The bill also calls for coordination between several federal agencies to prevent theft and requires a government report on the security risks of the Summer EBT payment system.

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