Military adds food-assistance counseling to veteran transition program
H.R. 1411 — No Veteran Should Go Hungry Act of 2025 · Filed by Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 18, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires the military's Transition Assistance Program (TAP)—which helps service members leaving the military—to include information and counseling about federal food assistance programs like SNAP and WIC. The counseling will be developed with the Department of Agriculture. Veterans and their families gain access to information about nutrition assistance they may qualify for during the transition to civilian life.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is to expand the Transition Assistance Program to include counseling on federal nutrition assistance. It is a straightforward public-benefit measure addressing food insecurity among transitioning service members.
What the text implies
- Counseling requirement may increase TAP administrative burden and cost, though no appropriation is specified in the bill itself—implementation depends on DoD budget allocation.
- Coordination with USDA may improve cross-agency awareness of veteran food-insecurity patterns, potentially informing future policy.
- Information provision does not guarantee uptake or enrollment; effectiveness depends on counselor training and veteran engagement.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Service members transitioning to civilian life often face income disruption and food insecurity. Adding mandatory information and counseling about federal nutrition assistance programs (SNAP, WIC) to TAP removes an information barrier and helps eligible veterans and families access benefits they may not otherwise know about. No costs to citizens are imposed; the bill only adds a counseling requirement.
Named in the bill
Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, Transition Assistance Program (TAP), SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), 10 U.S.C. § 1142(b), Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, Child Nutrition Act of 1966
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Feb 18, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 18, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $310,451 in lobbying spend. A filing names 170 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Josh Gottheimer, the sponsor, reported $989,300 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Disabled American Veterans — $310,451 on 2 filings
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 21, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (703 characters) on Sep 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 21, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-21.
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