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Rutherford County DSS outlines local impact if North Carolina cuts SNAP and Medicaid
Summary
Rutherford County Department of Social Services officials told commissioners that proposed state and federal changes to Medicaid and SNAP could reduce coverage for hundreds of county residents, increase workload for county staff and risk a substantial local fiscal shortfall if the state shifts costs to counties.
Rutherford County Department of Social Services Director Dee Hunt told the Board of Commissioners that proposed cuts in a legislative plan dubbed the “big beautiful bill” would sharply reduce Medicaid and SNAP coverage and increase local workloads and costs.
Hunt said the package would produce an estimated $32,000,000,000 in national cuts over 10 years and, if enacted as described, would begin changes to eligibility and recertification timing for North Carolina on Dec. 31, 2026. “It will in North Carolina, it will impact about 255,000 individuals,” Hunt said, and locally she said 5,256 county residents are enrolled under Medicaid expansion while a total of 2,312–2,383 people are enrolled in Medicaid in Rutherford County (numbers Hunt supplied to the board). She said the county’s SNAP program…
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