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Maryland officials say HR 1 will add work rules and new costs to SNAP; 680,000 recipients could be affected
Summary
Maryland Department of Human Services officials told a joint committee briefing that HR 1’s Nov. 1 implementation expands work requirements and narrows eligibility for certain immigrant groups, shifts more administrative costs to the state, and may expose Maryland to large federal liability tied to payment error rates.
Maryland Department of Human Services officials told a joint Health and Government Operations briefing that federal HR 1 has already taken effect and will change who qualifies for SNAP and how the program is paid for.
“Snap serves over 680,000 Marylanders, and we issue approximately $1,600,000,000 in federal funding to Marylanders each year,” Webster Yee, chief of staff at the Maryland Department of Human Services, said during the presentation. DHS said that amounts to roughly $180 per person per month.
The department and its assistant secretary for programs, Larry Handerhan, laid out three categories of impact: new eligibility obstacles and restrictions, lower benefit values for some households, and higher administrative costs. Handerhan said about 80,000 additional people could be subject to work requirements as…
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