Katie Bergh

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder · 3697 - Is Israel Imploding Or Expanding?; Trump's Crippling SNAP Cuts w/ Ilan Pappé, Katie Bergh · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

That's a very technical measure of the extent to which they have mistakenly issued households the wrong amount of SNAP benefits

So we're talking about too much, too little, largely reflecting unintentional mistakes by state eligibility workers and families in a program with really complicated rules.

But the law only gave states a very, very short window of time to lower their error rates before their cost sharing requirement is set and those massive new costs are locked in.

So we're seeing some states taking some pretty extreme steps to try to lower their error rate as quickly as possible, even if it means making it much, much more difficult for eligible families to access the help that they need.

Yes.

I think the really important thing to understand is that under SNAP rules, delaying benefits while you, you know, recheck every element of eligibility or even outright denying SNAP to an eligible family doesn't count as an error.

So what families are experiencing in Arizona and many other parts of the country is that the process to get and keep their benefits has suddenly gotten a lot more confusing.

It's

required them to track down a ton of documentation that they've never been asked for before.

It's meant waiting a lot longer for their applications to get approved.

And at the same time, it's gotten harder and harder to reach anyone if they need help getting through all of that red tape.

So families are losing SNAP when they get stuck in those bureaucratic obstacles and because understaffed states just can't keep up with all of that additional paperwork.

So I think this is already having an impact on families' experience of trying to get through the process to access the benefits they need.

But the impact will get much worse when it comes time for states to actually pay this new cost sharing requirement for benefits.

And that's because states have to balance their budgets.

So covering those costs means that they will either have to raise taxes or find other programs and services in their state budget to cut.

And if they can't fully cover those costs, they'll need to further restrict access to SNAP so that they can fulfill their cost sharing requirement for what is now a much smaller program that reaches far fewer people.

Or they may need to withdraw from the program entirely.

So this is something that could actually end SNAP's 50-year status as a nationwide program that's available to people in all 50 states.

Yeah, I'm glad you asked that because at the time that this law passed, what you heard over and over from Republican lawmakers was that these cuts were not about taking benefits away from kids, that kids would not be impacted, that we were just expanding work requirements for adults and it wouldn't impact kids.

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