Is the department going to ramp up staffing to handle the surge of everyone reapplying at once, or are people going to do without SNAP benefits, until they can get in for that face to face interview, in weeks, or months? As the Secretary claims there is "rampant" fraud, which implies the current system is not rigorous enough, what additional hoops will she demand people jump through to receive benefits?

Steve

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Thanks Steve, there is a difference between being subject to verification every six month and an actual verification being performed every six months or ever for that matter. We are not informed of the actual frequency or if there is a regular ongoing schedule. I am glad there is a process but how it is being used is the question.

The key is to have regular periodic scheduled recertification, say 50% of the recipients each year. sufficient to keep the fraud and error levels down. There is no way the Dept of Ag has the resources to process all 43 million recertifications in any reasonable amount of time. It makes them look silly to imply otherwise.

PS - I note your excerpt is from the Texas process, a well run Red state. I wonder if a blue state, say California, has a similar process. I would bet No.