TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – The One Big Beautiful Bill is shifting some SNAP responsibility onto the states.<\/p>\n
States will now be responsible for more funding \u2014 and penalties could cost Texas price tags with nine figures.<\/p>\n
Feeding Texas CEO Celia Cole said if a state\u2019s payment error rate is higher than six percent, they must pay five to fifteen percent of SNAP benefits.<\/p>\n
\u201cPayment errors are not intentional or fraud,\u201d Cole said. \u201cThey are honest mistakes made by the state or participants.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, what are payment error rates?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt reflects a combined rate of overpayments and underpayments,\u201d Jamie Olson, Feeding Texas Vice President of Advocacy and Policy, said.<\/p>\n
These errors do not come from abusing the system, wrongful denials, or fraud.<\/p>\n
According to Feeding Texas, in 2025, less than point one percent of Texas households committed SNAP fraud.<\/p>\n
Olson said errors can come from paying too much or too little.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey do not cancel out,\u201d Olson said. \u201cYou could hypothetically have three percent overpayment and three percent in underpayments, meaning the exact right amount of dollars went out the door – and yet that would be a six percent payment error rate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently, Texas\u2019 error rate is 8.32%.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it really is a measure of accuracy,\u201d Olson said. \u201cSo, if you flip that in your mind, an eight percent payment error rate is ninety-two percent accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Texas would pay seven hundred and nine million dollars per year in SNAP benefits starting in October 2027.<\/p>\n
But these rates can be reduced.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why groups like Feeding Texas advocate for a two-year delay from Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis flexibility has already been given to Alaska and other states that have really high error rates and it gives them time to get their error rates down,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n
According to Feeding Texas, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas\u2019 SNAP error rate was below six percent, and Feeding Texas said they believe Texas can return to that.<\/p>\n
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