Excerpt: “USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service today released the fiscal year 2023 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Payment Error Rates, detailing high rates that demand urgent state actions to improve. SNAP payment errors occur when a state agency certifies a household to receive either too much or not enough SNAP benefits. For fiscal year 2023 (Oct. 1, 2022 – Sept. 30, 2023), the overpayment error rate for SNAP is 10.03%, with an underpayment error rate of 1.64%, in line with the previous year. Payment error rates are not synonymous with fraud, but rather reflect how accurately states determine eligibility and benefit amounts. Payment errors are largely due to unintentional mistakes, either by the state agency or the household, that affect the accurate determination of eligibility or benefit amounts.”
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