Latest performance indicates N.H. could face $15M cost-share penalty for SNAP payment error rate
New Hampshire will contend with a $15 million obligation to pay for a portion of SNAP benefits as early as next year, according to the state’s latest performance against a key metric.
States’ payment error rates represent a measure of how much they over- or underpay benefits to residents enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Last year, the Trump administration’s budget reconciliation bill, H.R. 1, downshifted a majority of the costs of administering SNAP to states and instituted a tiered cost-sharing schema for benefits.
