verification that all members of the household are deceased . 4021. Requirements for online acceptance of benefits (a) Definition Section 3(o)(1) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012(o)(1) ) is amended by striking or house-to-house trade route and inserting , house-to-house trade route, or online entity . (b) Acceptance of benefits Section 7(k) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2016(k) ) is amended— (1) by striking the heading and inserting Acceptance of program benefits through online transactions , (2) in subparagraph (4) by striking subparagraph (C), and (3) by striking paragraph (5). 4022. National gateway (a) Issuance of benefits Section 7 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2016 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (d) by striking benefits by benefit issuers and inserting benefit issuers and other independent sales organizations, third-party processors, and web service providers that provide electronic benefit transfer services or equipment to retail food stores and wholesale food concerns, , and (2) by adding at the end the following: (l) Requirement To route all supplemental nutrition assistance program benefit transfer transactions through a national gateway (1) Definitions For purposes of this section: (A) The term independent sales organization means a person or entity that— (i) is not a third-party processor