Section 10102 of the final One Big Beautiful Bill Act puts veterans under SNAP's three-month time limit, which they had been exempt from, so a veteran without a qualifying disability keeps food aid past three months only by documenting work or training hours, and Brad Knott, who represents North Carolina's 13th District, voted for it on July 3, 2025; about 1.2 million low-income veterans nationwide receive SNAP, and the time limit applies to the ones between 18 and 64 who lack a disability or another exemption.
The same law requires expansion adults on Medicaid to report work hours and includes a veterans-specific exemption limited to disabilities rated total. In North Carolina, SNAP households included an average of 47,000 veterans in 2021-2023, and the state put the new food-aid rules in place on December 1, 2025.
Brad Knott's Votes on Food Aid and Health Coverage for Veterans
- Knott Voted for Section 10102, Which Ended Veterans' Exemption From SNAP's Time Limit. Brad Knott was a yes on July 3, 2025, when the House cleared the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for the president. The final law's Section 10102, approved in that vote, rewrote the work rules for able-bodied adults on SNAP and stripped veterans of their exemption, and a veteran lacking a qualifying disability who cannot show 80 monthly hours of work or training is dropped after three months. SNAP serves about 1.2 million low-income veterans across the country, according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis that Stateline reported, and veterans 18 to 64 who are not disabled or otherwise exempt and cannot prove the hours now risk losing their groceries.
- Knott Voted for a Medicaid Work Requirement Whose Veterans-Specific Exemption Covers Only Total Disability Ratings. The enacted law, which passed 218-214 with Knott's yes, makes Medicaid expansion adults show 80 hours a month in a job or another approved activity, and its veterans exemption is limited to an individual who "is a veteran with a disability rated as total under section 1155 of title 38". A veteran with a partial disability rating who gets health care through Medicaid expansion has to document hours or qualify on other grounds to stay covered, and federal officials project the requirement will reduce enrollment by 2.3 million people in fiscal 2027.
What the Law Brad Knott Voted For Means for North Carolina Veterans
- SNAP households in North Carolina include 47,000 veterans the new time limit can reach. CBPP found that from 2021 to 2023 an average of 47,000 of North Carolina's 618,000 veterans, or 8%, were in households getting SNAP. A veteran in one of those households who is between jobs and cannot show the required hours now risks losing that food aid after three months, under the rule Section 10102 wrote.
- North Carolina ended the veterans' SNAP exemption on December 1, 2025. North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services lists veterans among the SNAP recipients whose exemptions ended under H.R. 1, with the changes for adults 18 through 64 starting December 1, 2025; veterans who do not meet the work rule or another exemption can receive benefits for only three months in three years.
- 42,600 expansion adults in North Carolina's 13th District, veterans among them, fall under the Medicaid work rule. KFF counts 42,600 adults enrolled through the Medicaid expansion in North Carolina's 13th District in 2025, the group the work requirement covers. Unless rated totally disabled or otherwise exempt, a veteran among them must start reporting hours under a rule states must begin "no later than January 1, 2027."
Frequently Asked Questions About Brad Knott on Veterans
What is Brad Knott's record on veterans under Trump?
Brad Knott's July 3, 2025 yes helped enact a law that puts veterans back under SNAP's three-month cutoff and limits its Medicaid work rule's veterans-specific exemption to total disability ratings. His May 22, 2025 vote was one the House version needed to pass. In 2021-2023, SNAP reached the households of an average of 47,000 North Carolina veterans.
What do the SNAP rules in the law Brad Knott voted for require of a North Carolina veteran?
Under the law Brad Knott voted for, a North Carolina veteran between 18 and 64 who has no child under 14 and no qualifying disability must now put in 80 hours a month of work, volunteering or a work program; otherwise benefits stop after three months in any three-year span. The state health department put the change into effect on December 1, 2025.
Does a North Carolina veteran with a partial disability rating have to meet the Medicaid work rule Brad Knott voted for?
Unless another exemption applies, yes: in the law Brad Knott voted for, the veterans exemption covers only a disability "rated as total," so a North Carolina veteran in the expansion group with a lower rating must report hours, though one judged medically frail can qualify on that ground. States must start the requirement no later than January 1, 2027.
Last updated: 2026-10-27