Legislative Finance staff warns SNAP policy changes, payment-error exposure could impose large state costs
Legislative Finance Committee staff told the Legislative Health & Human Services Committee that New Mexico faces elevated food insecurity and program risk if proposed federal reconciliation changes take effect; staff cited 459,500 monthly SNAP recipients, a roughly 14.6% payment-error rate, and projected state fiscal exposures in the tens or hundreds of millions under certain scenarios.
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Legislative Finance Committee staff gave the committee a detailed briefing on food security in New Mexico, emphasizing how proposed federal changes to SNAP could shift costs and eligibility in ways that would affect hundreds of thousands of residents.
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