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State warns SNAP error rate could trigger federal cost‑sharing; DHS seeks Gateway modernization money
Summary
Department of Human Services told the Senate subcommittee Georgia's SNAP payment error rate is about 14–15%, which under recent federal changes could trigger substantial state cost‑sharing; DHS requested additional funds for Georgia Gateway modernization and outlined operational fixes to lower the error rate.
Department of Human Services officials told the Senate Appropriations Health and Human Services Development Subcommittee that Georgia's SNAP payment error‑rate — as measured by federal quality control (QC) sampling — is currently in the mid‑teens, and that the change in federal law could require states with higher error rates to assume a portion of SNAP benefit costs.
A DHS presenter explained the QC sampling process and said Georgia's recent measured error rate is "between 14, 15 is what we're looking at right now." Under the federal reform discussed in…
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