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Without a net: Who will feel the pain from budget cuts?
UNITED STATES, JUL 21 – States with SNAP error rates above 13.34% get a two-year delay on cost-sharing starting in 2030, risking reduced incentives to lower errors and increased food insecurity, watchdogs warn.
- In final reconciliation talks, they inserted an exception letting states with SNAP error rates over 13.34% delay cost sharing from 2028 to 2030.
- To offset tax cut costs, Republicans targeted SNAP spending, and the Congressional Budget Office projected a $295 billion reduction over 10 years.
- Watchdogs warned the delay could discourage states from lowering error rates, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar said 'They are rewarding errors' in SNAP error rates.
- New Mexico House Speaker Javier Martinez said 'It's a shell game,' and Katie Bergh stated that covering new SNAP costs will likely require raising revenue or cutting programs.
- A June 24 CBO assessment projects about 12 million will lose health care coverage under ACA changes, and the deepest Medicaid and SNAP cuts don’t begin until 2028.
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Girding for federal cuts, guv launches Anti-Hunger Task Force
BOSTON (SHNS) - With thousands of Bay Staters expected to lose access to food assistance benefits under the federal megalaw, Gov. Maura Healey launched a task force to help Massachusetts navigate the massive SNAP cuts. Healey established the group through an executive order Thursday, bringing together Cabinet secretaries and agency leaders (or their designees), SNAP recipients, farmers and small business owners, plus leaders of food banks and no…
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Federal cuts to SNAP, Medicaid might threaten Maine’s free school meals
Students getting their l lunch at a primary school in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Amanda Mills/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)Cuts to food assistance and health care through the recently signed federal tax cut and sending bill may jeopardize Maine’s free school meals program. Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid will not only leave thousands of families without access to the critical social safety nets, …
GOP wants to cut waste. Critics say SNAP exemption could do opposite.
When passing their massive tax and immigration law, Republicans said they wanted to tackle instances of “waste, fraud and abuse” in federal programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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