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Oregon Eligibility Partnership warns HR 1 will add major staff workload and fiscal risk; agency seeks funding
Summary
Oregon Eligibility Partnership Director Nate Singer told the Ways and Means Human Services Subcommittee that HR 1’s expanded work requirements and verification rules will increase workload drastically, and ODHS requested $131 million and roughly 452 positions in its December funding letter (revisions pending).
Oregon Eligibility Partnership Director Nate Singer told the Ways and Means Human Services Subcommittee on Feb. 16 that federal changes known in the briefing as "HR 1" substantially increase verification and work‑requirement obligations for SNAP and Medicaid, shifting fiscal and operational risk to the state and prompting an agency funding request.
Singer said HR 1 requires more frequent verification, expanded work requirements and additional reporting that will mean more "touches" per case even where caseloads fall. "HR 1 moved the risk to states," Singer said. "If we do not interpret, implement, and adjust quickly and accurately, that risk becomes state risk." He warned of "hundreds of millions to…
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