US EditionWithout a net: Who will feel the pain from budget cuts?
UNITED STATES, JUL 21 – States with SNAP error rates above 13.34% get a two-year delay on cost-sharing starting in 2030, risking reduced incentives to lower errors and increased food insecurity, watchdogs warn.
- On July 4, Republicans enacted legislation, with Republicans said they aimed to cut waste, fraud, and abuse in SNAP, requiring states with high error rates to share costs starting in 2028.
- The GOP’s budget paired SNAP cuts, aiming to offset spending, with an exception allowing states with error rates above 13.34% to delay cost-sharing until 2030.
- Under the exception, states with error margins ≥13.34% can delay cost sharing until 2030, CBO estimated $295 billion in savings over 10 years, and the exemption was added in final negotiations.
- Critics said, `Gina Plata-Nino, deputy director of SNAP at the Food Research and Action Center, warned the delay could discourage states from lowering error rates.`
- According to Feeding America, over 1.6 million Ohioans face food insecurity, with $8 million in state budget cuts, including $3 million in food, straining local food banks and programs.
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Federal cuts to SNAP, Medicaid might threaten Maine’s free school meals
Students getting their l lunch at a primary school in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Amanda Mills/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Cuts to food assistance and health care through the recently signed federal tax cut and sending bill may jeopardize Maine’s free school meals program. Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid will not only leave thousands of families without access to the critical social safety nets, …
GOP wants to cut waste. Critics say SNAP exemption could do opposite.
When passing their massive tax and immigration law, Republicans said they wanted to tackle instances of “waste, fraud and abuse” in federal programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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