DHHS tells appropriations subcommittee it serves millions through SNAP, Medicaid, diaper and weatherization programs

Dwayne Haywood, senior deputy director for the Economic Stability Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services, told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Human Services during a committee meeting that the department administers a suite of programs that serve millions of Michigan residents, including SNAP, Medicaid, State Emergency Relief (SER), child daycare subsidies, the Family Independence Program (FIP), State Disability Assistance, a diaper initiative and a weatherization program.

Haywood said the department “cover[s] 83 counties, with a hundred offices” and processes millions of program registrations each year. He described program scale and recent funding levels: the state administers about 1.3 million average monthly SNAP recipients with an average monthly benefit of about $250; in 2024 the summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program issued about $120 million to more than 1 million children; and the Michigan Medicaid program covers more than 2.6 million residents, including roughly 1 million children, about…