{"id":17621,"date":"2026-06-24T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17621"},"modified":"2026-06-24T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:02:13","slug":"dozens-of-states-could-face-new-costs-because-of-high-error-rates-in-snap-food-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17621","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of states could face new costs because of high error rates in SNAP food aid"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By DAVID A. LIEB<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several dozen states could have to fork over millions of dollars to provide food aid to lower-income residents, if they don\u2019t cut down on payment errors in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.<\/p>\n

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Nine states, meanwhile, won\u2019t have to pay a penny toward SNAP benefits, because their error rates are so low that they won an exemption from a cost-sharing requirement included in a big tax-and-spending law signed by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture provides a first look at the winners \u2014 and potential losers \u2014 under the new law.<\/p>\n

The error rate refers rather the percentage of SNAP benefits paid either above or below what people should have received, primarily because of mistakes. While low-error states are guaranteed to owe nothing when the annual cost-sharing requirement begins in October 2027, others will have another year to try to reduce their errors and decrease the hit to their budgets.<\/p>\n

States with high error rates will have to make choices that could impact their residents. To fund SNAP benefits, do they spend less on public schools, law enforcement or mental health care? To save money, do they squeeze people off SNAP by making it harder to stay in the program? Or do they drop out entirely from the federal food aid program that\u2019s been around for decades?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are billions of dollars that are at stake that states will have to find the money to be able to pay if they want to continue to operate a SNAP program,\u201d said Chloe Green, assistant director for policy at the American Public Human Services Association.<\/p>\n