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Changes to federal nutrition assistance policies in President Donald Trump’s megabill could cost the state over a billion a ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill has a SNAP benefit cost-share. Can Kansas fix its payment error rate and prevent a federal funding cut to food stamps?
President Donald Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" shifts more Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program costs to states.
Passed and signed into law last Thursday and Friday, the Republican-majority Congress’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” makes major ...
The report released last week said that almost everywhere in the United States, Trump’s bill will cut food benefits that were ...
Democrats repeatedly pointed to a Congressional Budget Office analysis that finds the bill would add $2.4 trillion to the federal ... R-Ark., defending the state cost-share requirement for SNAP.
Georgia’s payment error rate during fiscal 2024 was 15.6%, exceeded only by Alaska and the District of Columbia. The national payment error rate was 10.93%.
President Donald Trump’s new budget package cuts funding for programs like Medicaid and SNAP through work requirements.
Proposed changes to SNAP, commonly known as food stamps, in the so-called “big, beautiful bill” tax and spending package championed by President Donald Trump would shift some program costs ...
Combined, the SNAP cost-share provisions in the bill would cost the state about $77 million. That's based on fiscal year 2023 data, which was the most recent available at that time.
A reduction in SNAP benefits would also impact the broader state economy, Hertel said, because some $3 billion of those benefits were spent at Michigan retailers in 2024.
In April, the state of Iowa sought a waiver from the USDA permitting a prohibition on using SNAP dollars to purchase candy and sugary beverages. Such restrictions are neither a new idea nor solely ...