Katie Bergh
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first heard Jul 2026
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many eligible families, including families with children, to lose SNAP, again, even though they still qualify, they can't get through what is now a much more difficult process to get and keep the benefits they need.
And Alaska is in a little bit of a unique situation because they are very likely to benefit from the special carve-out you mentioned, where they get up to two additional years before they face some of these very significant cost shifts to the state budget.
Yeah, so this is not a blue state problem.
It's not a red state problem.
It's not a purple state problem.
These cuts are going to hit states across the political spectrum.
And I think it's important to understand the magnitude of the cost shifts from the federal government onto state budgets, because that is driving a lot of the deepest impact.
So, historically, states and the federal government split the cost of operating SNAP 50-50, while the federal government paid the full cost of the benefits themselves.
And that ensured that eligible families who were seeking help from SNAP could get it, even if they lived in a state that may have had higher rates of poverty and fewer resources.
But the reconciliation law actually changes both aspects of SNAP's funding in ways that are really upending program operations and harming eligible families.
So federal funding for those administrative costs, which covers the workers making eligibility decisions, the technology the state is using, even the EBT cards themselves, that gets cut in half.
So states will be picking up a much larger share of the tab for the day-to-day operations of the program.
And states that don't make up for that lost federal funding will likely see, you know, staffing shortages, overloaded phone lines, processing backlogs that leave people waiting for months without the help that they need.
And then starting on October 1st, 2027, most states will be required to start paying a portion of the SNAP benefit costs for the first time ever.
And that is a much bigger hit to state budgets.
We estimate that will add up to a roughly $9 billion hit to state budgets total in just the first year.
And almost half of states will face 100 million more in new costs.
And that's where the impact on eligible families come in.
Because right now, even before that enormous bill comes due for states, they're staring down the barrel of these massive new costs and are racing to reduce their exposure to them.
And what actually determines how much states will be required to pay towards SNAP benefits is their payment error rate in SNAP.
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