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Witness urges states to share costs for excess SNAP improper payments, cites HR 1 and No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025
Summary
Testifying to a congressional committee, Rachel Gresler said HR 1's SNAP cost-sharing provision is a "huge win" and urged extending similar requirements across federal benefit programs; she also advocated for the No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025 to tighten eligibility.
Rachel Gresler, senior research fellow at Advancing American Freedom, told the committee that HR 1 included "a huge win for SNAP accountability by requiring states to share in the cost if their improper payments exceed 6%." She argued that similar cost-sharing incentives should be applied to other federal programs to reduce improper payments.
Gresler also called for statutory changes to close eligibility loopholes that allow wealthy or ineligible individuals to receive benefits. She cited a Department of Agriculture estimate that "5,600,000 individuals" received SNAP despite not meeting federal eligibility standards and pointed to the No Welfare for the Wealthy Act of 2025 as a legislative mechanism to require households to meet federal standards before qualifying for SNAP.
Her testimony framed these steps as ways to give states and benefit distributors "skin in the game" so that taxpayers are better protected when programs fail to meet measurement or compliance standards.
