The food stamp program was slammed with fraud and bungling during the pandemic, leading to the highest rate of 'improper payments' on record last year, according to new government data.
says nearly 10% of payments in 2022 were “overpayments,” meaning someone either got more than they deserved or got money when they shouldn’t have been getting any payment at all. Nearly 2% more were underpayments.
The Biden administration defended the performance and insisted the new numbers aren’t all due to fraud, though it acknowledged lingering “challenges” from the pandemic that have affected operations. Food stamps — officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — averaged 41.2 million beneficiaries in 2022, with an average payment of $230.24, for a total of $113.9 billion. That’s more than twice the program’s cost in 2019, before the pandemic, when food stamp benefits cost just $55.6 billion.That same day the Government Accountability Office released a report on the broader universe of improper payments, which it said totaled $247 billion in fiscal 2022.
The government first began estimating improper payments in benefit programs after the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 took effect.
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