County staff warn SNAP enforcement and admin changes could raise local costs by hundreds of thousands

Jul 14, 2025

County staff briefed commissioners on federal SNAP and program-match changes that could increase Chaffee County’s administrative burden and, under some scenarios, shift hundreds of thousands of dollars of costs to the county.

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Chaffee County staff told commissioners July 16 that federal changes to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rules will increase county administrative work and could raise the county’s fiscal exposure under certain implementation scenarios.

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