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County staff warn federal and state SNAP/Medicaid changes could shrink benefits and shift costs to St. Louis County
Summary
Public health and human services staff briefed commissioners on forthcoming SNAP and Medicaid policy changes — higher SNAP work‑requirement age, utility deduction changes, a reduction in federal administrative reimbursement and possible state cost shifts based on error rates — and estimated local impacts and workloads.
Deputy Director of Public Health and Human Services (name not specified in the transcript) briefed the St. Louis County Board on a set of impending federal and state changes to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid that staff said could reduce benefits for some households and increase workload and county costs.
On SNAP, staff told the board that work requirements will expand (raising the exempt age from 54 to 64 and changing which caregivers are exempt) and that the standard utility deduction calculation will change from a flat $649 deduction to actual household utility expenses. "We anticipate that this will be about less than a thousand individuals in St. Louis County," the deputy director said of the SNAP population likely affected; the county currently serves roughly 16,000 SNAP recipients. Staff estimated 6,752 households in the county receive Low Income Home Energy…
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