YourVoice.Now Summary
Your MoneyTransparency & AccountabilitySends $200 million a year through 2029 for free diapers and adult incontinence supplies, and lets pre-tax health accounts pay for them.
Your Money
Congress would add $200 million a year to the Social Services Block Grant from 2026 through 2029. States could keep up to 5 percent for admin costs and must pass the rest to diaper banks and nonprofits.
The same grant buys adult diapers, pull-ups, pads, liners, catheters, and bags. Low-income adults and kids aged 3 to 18 with disabilities can get them.
Agencies would ignore this aid when they check if you qualify for other federal help. Your food help, cash help, or health coverage would not shrink.
Health savings and flexible spending accounts could pay for these diapers and wipes. There is no income limit, and it starts with costs paid after December 31, 2025.
You would state your own income instead of proving it with papers. The cutoff is 200 percent of the federal poverty line, or twice the poverty level for your family size.
Transparency & Accountability
Health and Human Services would study the program within two years and post the results on its website. States would report each year who got help, how many diapers went out, and in which ZIP codes.
The $200 million a year stops after fiscal year 2029. Congress would have to pass a new law to keep the program going.
More about this bill
Low-income families could get free diapers under a new federal grant. The End Diaper Need Act would send $200 million a year to states from 2026 through 2029. States would pass the money to diaper banks, nonprofits, tribes, and local agencies. Those groups would hand out diapers and wipes at no cost. Families earning up to twice the federal poverty line would qualify. You would report your own income to sign up. Automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts could not touch this money. The money would also buy adult incontinence supplies. That covers adult diapers, pads, liners, catheters, and drainage bags. Low-income adults, adults with disabilities, and disabled children ages 3 to 18 could get them. Taking this help would not count against your other benefits. Your food aid, cash aid, or health coverage would stay the same. A second change is not limited by income. Medically needed diapers and wipes would become eligible costs for health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, and similar plans. That covers anyone age 3 or older who needs them for a medical reason. It would apply to costs paid after December 31, 2025. Health and Human Services would study the program and post the results online within two years. The grant money would run out after 2029 unless Congress renews it.
Congressional Summary
This bill establishes and expands programs to provide low-income families and other vulnerable groups with access to diapers and related supplies.Specifically, it provides additional funding for FY2026-FY2029 to meet the diapering needs of certain low-income families and adults through the Social Services Block Grant Program. This grant program provides a flexible funding stream to states and territories to support social services for vulnerable children, adults, and families.The bill exempts these funds for diapering needs from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, across-the-board reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.The bill requires these funds to be used to meet the diapering needs oflow-income families with one or more infants, toddlers, or medically complex children (i.e., children who are age three or older and diagnosed with a serious condition such as bowel or bladder incontinence); andlow-income families with adults, or children or adults with disabilities, who rely on diapers and other adult incontinence materials.The bill also allows individuals to buy medically necessary diapers and related supplies with funds from health savings accounts and other tax-advantaged accounts for health care expenses.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-05-20
- Date Added
- 2026-03-30
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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