County warned of SNAP payment-error calculations that could trigger penalties
DSS and committee members described how payment-error rates (now including documentation errors) are calculated and warned that persistent statewide error rates could lead to large county financial penalties; staff urged tracking and IT solutions to reduce errors.
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DSS staff and committee members discussed the SNAP payment-error rate during the budget review, explaining that federal calculations now fold in documentation/clerical errors with payment errors and that the metric is the share of error dollars to total benefit dollars.
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