USDA: California Must Now Repay $1.4 Billion in SNAP Mistakes
We've known for some time that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was out of control. The system is rife with fraud and has been for years, although more recently the fraud seems to have achieved industrial levels. Now, though, a story arises that involves not necessarily fraud but "errors," those being overpayments or underpayments (guess which one's more common) by the SNAP program to recipients. The USDA sets a limit of 6 percent error, beyond which the state in question
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USDA: California and 40 Other States Have Cost Over $10B in Government Waste via SNAP Mistakes By Ward Clark | 2:07 PM on July 11, 2026 The opinions expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh We've known for some time that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was out of control. The system is rife with fraud and has been for years, although more recently the fraud seems to have achieved industrial levels. Now, though, a story arises that involves not necessarily fraud but "errors," those being overpayments or underpayments (guess which one's more common) by the SNAP program to recipients.
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