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DCF warns HR 1 will shift SNAP costs to Kansas; seeks tech, staffing and $12.1M in FY27
Summary
Department for Children and Families told the Committee on Social Services Budget that HR 1’s changes to SNAP would shift administrative costs to the state and could expose Kansas to benefit liabilities tied to a payment‑error‑rate metric; DCF requested technology investments and staffing to reduce error rates and $12.1 million SGF in FY27.
Amanda Prosser, a Legislative Research analyst, opened the Committee on Social Services Budget hearing by walking members through the Department for Children and Families’ budget and supplemental requests. She told the committee the agency’s approved current‑year appropriation is just over $1 billion in all funds, including about $465 million in state general fund. The presentation moved quickly to the items tied to SNAP and HR 1, which the agency says are the most consequential budget drivers.
The agency and its secretary framed HR 1 as a federal cost shift rather than a performance finding. Secretary Laura Howard described the changes as a federal law (HR 1, the federal 2025 budget reconciliation bill) that will increase the state’s share of SNAP administrative costs from a 50% match to a 75% match effective Oct. 1, 2026. “This has nothing to do with state performance…this is literally just a cost shift that the federal…
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