More than $34 million of taxpayers’ money is lost every day due to mistakes in food stamp payments, a shock study reveals.
Some states are worse than others at administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program, which helps poor families buy groceries, snacks, and drinks.
In Alaska, fully 57 percent of food stamp payments were dodgy, says research from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).
Maryland, Oregon, Delaware, and Hawaii also have shockingly high error rates.
Many mistaken payouts are down to fraud, abuse, and waste, but they don’t always point to lawbreaking, says report author Matthew Dickerson.
More than half of food stamp payments in Alaska are identified as fraudulent, abuse, waste or an error, research shows