Food insecurity among low income students has increased during COVID-19, and could persist for months or years for students saddled with educational debt or facing uncertain unemployment. Access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for children has a proven effect on reducing childhood food insecurity, and when students have access to food, their grades improve. Access to SNAP may similarly improve college student retention and academic success when students are nourished while learning. However, in order to be eligible for SNAP under long-standing federal rules, college students attending at least half-time have had to meet one of the student "exemptions," as they are known in federal law, in addition to all the regular SNAP eligibility rules. For many, the student exemptions are difficult to meet. Unless they are lucky enough to get work study with an anticipated job, many students are faced with proving their SNAP eligibility through working 20 hours per week while also attending college -- the so-called "work for food" requirement. This policy report, written jointly by CLASP and MLRI, highlights additional options states have to expand SNAP access to students with low incomes--well beyond the temporary student provisions in the recent COVID-19 relief bill--and minimize saddling students with unfair and unrealistic work requirements. States are encouraged to explore key state options while also advocating with Congress for permanent SNAP policy reforms that center the basic needs of their students. [For the executive summary, see ED617034. For the appendix to this report, see ED617032.]