IARN — SNAP payment error and fraud rates have alarmed U.S. lawmakers and further fueled the food stamp spending fight, central to writing the new farm bill. The total SNAP fiscal year 2022 error rate of 11.5% prompted bipartisan response from the four Ag panel leaders, who called it “unacceptable” and a threat to SNAP’s integrity.
Iowa’s Joni Ernst complained at an earlier Senate Ag hearing that SNAP fraud rates are also shockingly high.
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