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States weigh BBCE and waiver tradeoffs as options to ease SNAP cliffs, officials say
Summary
Witnesses told a House subcommittee that broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) and time-limit waivers for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABOD/ABAWD waivers) help reduce churn and increase access, but can raise caseloads and short-term error rates; states must balance customer service, staffing and fiscal impacts.
State and local witnesses at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing described how broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE) and waiver authority for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABOD or ABAWD waivers) operate in practice and the tradeoffs states face.
"What BBCE allows is for a state to raise that initial gross income threshold up to 200% of poverty and ease or remove the asset test, but it does not waive the federal net income requirement," Chloe Green of the American Public Human Services Association told the committee. She said BBCE can reduce churn and permit families to build savings,…
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