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Inspector general flags voter-registration mailings and SNAP/Medicaid data mismatches to committee
Summary
In an issue brief presented Jan. 27, the inspector general said KDHE's form changes and data mismatches between SNAP and Medicaid led to excessive voter-registration mailings and that SNAP/EBT transactions show fraud patterns warranting further investigation.
Steve Anderson, inspector general in the attorney general's office, told the Committee on Welfare Reform that an issue brief on voter registration and an ongoing data-share audit revealed process errors and potential misuse that merit follow-up.
Anderson said KDHE removed a federally required question from its form and, for a period, treated blank responses as an affirmative request to receive a voter-registration packet. "We swung the other direction where we said, you know what? We're gonna take that question off of our form, and we're gonna start treating blanks...as a yes," Anderson said, and he told…
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