---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2036c"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2036c"
heading: "Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2036c"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program"
---

# §2036c. Annual State report on verification of SNAP participation

- (a) **Annual report—** Not later than 1 year after the date specified by the [Secretary](/usc/7/2012.md?p=p) during the 180-day period beginning on February 7, 2014, and annually thereafter, each [State agency](/usc/7/2012.md?p=s) that carries out the [supplemental nutrition assistance program](/usc/7/2012.md?p=t) established under the [Food](/usc/7/2012.md?p=k) and Nutrition Act of 2008 ([7 U.S.C. 2011](/usc/7/2011.md) et seq.) shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/7/2012.md?p=p) a report containing sufficient information for the [Secretary](/usc/7/2012.md?p=p) to determine whether the [State agency](/usc/7/2012.md?p=s) has, for the most recently concluded fiscal year preceding that annual date, verified that the [State agency](/usc/7/2012.md?p=s) in that fiscal year—
  - (1) did not issue [benefits](/usc/7/2012.md?p=d) to a deceased individual; and
  - (2) did not issue [benefits](/usc/7/2012.md?p=d) to an individual who had been permanently disqualified from receiving [benefits](/usc/7/2012.md?p=d).
- (b) **Penalty for noncompliance—** For any fiscal year for which a [State agency](/usc/7/2012.md?p=s) fails to comply with [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/7/2012.md?p=p) shall impose a penalty that includes a reduction of up to 50 percent of the amount that would be otherwise payable to the [State agency](/usc/7/2012.md?p=s) under [section 16(a)](/usc/7/16.md?p=a) of the [Food](/usc/7/2012.md?p=k) and Nutrition Act of 2008 ([7 U.S.C. 2025(a)](/usc/7/2025.md?p=a)) with respect to that fiscal year.
- (c) **Report of pilot program to test prevention of duplicate participation—** Not later than 90 days after the completion in multiple [States](/usc/7/2012.md?p=r) of a temporary pilot program to test the detection and prevention of duplicate participation by beneficiaries of the [supplemental nutrition assistance program](/usc/7/2012.md?p=t) established under the [Food](/usc/7/2012.md?p=k) and Nutrition Act of 2008 ([7 U.S.C. 2011](/usc/7/2011.md) et seq.), the [Secretary](/usc/7/2012.md?p=p) shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report assessing the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost for the expansion of the pilot program nationwide.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–79, title IV, § 4032, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 817.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is Pub. L. 88–525, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 703, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Agricultural Act of 2014, and not as part of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definition of “Secretary”

“Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 9001 of this title.