Congressional field representative warns of SNAP cost shift despite low local error rates
Peyton Crotty, field representative for Rep. Pete Stauber, told the Pine County Board that federal policy is shifting costs tied to statewide SNAP error rates, which could impose short-term burdens on low-error counties like Pine even when local error rates are near zero.
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Peyton Crotty, the new field representative for Congressman Pete Stauber, briefed the Pine County Board on federal policy changes that could shift costs to counties administering SNAP. "He commends Pine County quite a bit for keeping their error rates below that 6% threshold," Crotty said, while explaining that the congressman's office is pushing for lower statewide error rates and that, in the short term, well‑performing counties may shoulder costs if statewide averages remain high.
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