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Lawmakers press DHS on two‑year delay implementing broad‑based SNAP eligibility change
Summary
Senator raised frustration that legislation enacted two years earlier to change SNAP asset rules tied to categorical eligibility has not been implemented; DHS officials said they are still identifying maintenance-of-effort funding and have not submitted a federal funding package yet.
A state senator pressed Department of Human Services officials on Monday over a legislative change intended to expand SNAP eligibility, saying two years have passed without implementation.
Senator (unnamed in transcript) said the change Congress or the Legislature authorized would allow broader asset limits for SNAP recipients if certain criteria were met and expressed frustration at the lack of progress: “And we are 2 years down the road, from the passage of the…
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