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County staff warn SNAP enforcement and admin changes could raise local costs by hundreds of thousands
Summary
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.
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.
County staff said two provisions drew the most immediate concern: (1) a federal change to how state error rates are calculated and applied (the staff called these "par rates" or error-rate matches) that could create county responsibility for a portion of benefit overpayments; and (2) a change in how periodic redeterminations are scheduled, moving SNAP recertifications from annual to every six months, which would increase staff workload.
Numbers presented to the board were illustrative:…
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