A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to raise the level of deductions for certain medical and dental expenses in the computation of incomes of households containing a member who is sixty years of age or over or who receives supplemental security income benefits under Title XVI of the Social Security Act or disability payments under Title II of the Social Security Act.

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Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended by the Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1979, with respect to the excess medical expense deduction for households with members 60 years of age or older or recipients of social security disability payments or supplemental security income benefits, to: (1) apply such deduction to the medical expenses of the spouses of such persons; and (2) lower from $35 to $10 the threshold amount for computing such excess expenses.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 1 August 1979

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