(NEXSTAR) —— 各州正面临时间紧迫的压力，必须降低错误率，否则将面临失去大量联邦拨款用于补充营养援助计划（SNAP）的风险。这种压力源于去年通过的一项法律，该法律将错误率与联邦对补充营养援助计划（SNAP，即原食品券计划）的拨款挂钩。各州需要将错误率控制在 6% 以下才能避免受到影响，但目前只有极少数州达标。
(NEXSTAR) – Time is ticking for states to slash their error rates or risk losing a sizable amount of federal funding for SNAP. The pressure comes from a law passed last year that ties error rates to federal funds for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the program formerly known as Food Stamps. States need to meet a target error rate under 6% to avoid being impacted, but so far only a small minority have made the cut.
截至 2025 财年，仅有 9 个州的错误率低于 6%，而 41 个州仍未达标。错误率是指发放的 SNAP 福利金额高于或低于受助人应得金额的比例，主要由失误造成。它包括超额发放和少发，但超额发放更为常见。全国平均错误率约为 11%。目前，只有 9 个州达到了 6% 的新目标：爱达荷州、爱荷华州、肯塔基州、内布拉斯加州、南达科他州、犹他州、佛蒙特州、威斯康星州和怀俄明州。
As of the 2025 fiscal year, only nine states had error rates under 6% and 41 states were still in trouble. The error rate refers to the percentage of SNAP benefits paid either above or below what people should have received, primarily because of mistakes. It includes overpayments and underpayments, but overpayments are more common. The national average error rate is about 11%. So far, only nine states have met the new 6% goal: Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
其他所有州仍需努力——有些州甚至面临巨大的整改任务。阿拉斯加州的错误率高达 23%，居全国之冠。如果这听起来很糟糕，那已经是从 2023 年的 60% 大幅改善了。该州卫生部门表示，错误率之所以居高不下，是因为该州优先保障食品援助的发放，即使部分证明文件缺失。发言人梅根·达罗此前对《安克雷奇每日新闻》表示：“虽然这种做法有助于保障食品援助的获取，但增加了程序和行政错误的风险。”
Everyone else still has some work to do – and some states have a lot of work to do. Alaska has the highest error rate in the country at 23%. If that sounds bad, it’s a big improvement from 2023, when the state’s error rate was 60%. The state’s error rate is so high, the Department of Health said, because it has been prioritizing keeping food assistance going, even when some documentation was missing. “While this approach helped protect access to food assistance, it increased the risk of procedural and administrative errors,” spokesperson Megan Darrow previously told Anchorage Daily News.
请通过浏览下方地图查看您所在州的 SNAP 错误率。 大多数州只剩最后一年时间来整改。联邦法律规定，各州在确定 2027 年 10 月起必须支付的 SNAP 福利比例时，可以选择使用其 2025 年或 2026 年的错误率，因此去年的数据（上图所示）是首批被纳入计算的数字。
See your state's SNAP error rate by exploring the map below. Most states have just one more year to get their acts together. Federal law says states can choose to use either their 2025 or 2026 error rates when determining what percentage of SNAP benefits they must pay starting in October 2027, so last year's numbers (in the map above) were the first to count.
阿拉斯加州、特拉华州、佐治亚州、伊利诺伊州、新墨西哥州、俄勒冈州和哥伦比亚特区的错误率过高，将至少再获得一年时间尝试降低错误率。在错误率仍高于 6% 的州，法律不会直接削减发放给 SNAP（补充营养援助计划）受益人的福利金。相反，它强制这些州自行筹措资金。根据错误率的严重程度，各州将被迫承担 5% 至 15% 的福利成本。
Error rates are so high in Alaska, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, Oregon and D.C. that they'll be given at least one more year to try and reduce them. In states where error rates remain above 6%, the law doesn't directly cut the benefits SNAP recipients are paid. Instead, it forces states to come up with the funding themselves. States will be forced to shoulder 5% to 15% of benefit costs, depending on how bad their error rate is.
然而，这种间接影响最终仍可能导致依赖 SNAP 的家庭看到其每月福利额度减少。由于成本转移，国会预算办公室估计，一些州最终将减少或取消约 30 万人的 SNAP 福利。儿童营养计划的补贴也可能为约 9.6 万名儿童减少。
The indirect effect, however, may still end up being that families who rely on SNAP see their monthly allotment go down. As a result of the cost shift, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that some states will end up reducing or eliminating SNAP benefits for about 300,000 people. Subsidies through child nutrition programs could also decrease for about 96,000 children.
以密苏里州为例。去年其错误率为 8.7%。除非明年有所改善，否则该州将从 2027 年 10 月起不得不承担 10% 的 SNAP 福利成本。根据联邦最新可用数据，2024 年密苏里州居民获得的 SNAP 福利约为 15 亿美元。如果未来发放的福利金额相同，密苏里州可能需要承担 1.5 亿美元的成本；这一数额超过了该州几座监狱的总预算。
Consider Missouri as an example. It had an error rate of 8.7% last year. Unless it improves next year, the state will have to pick up 10% of SNAP benefit costs starting in October 2027. Missouri residents received about $1.5 billion of SNAP benefits in 2024, the latest year for which federal data is available. If that same amount of benefits is paid in the future, Missouri could have to cover $150 million of the costs; that’s a sum greater than the total budgeted for several state prisons.
随着潜在资金削减迫在眉睫，自 2025 年《一个宏伟美好的法案》（“One Big Beautiful Bill”）通过以来，该法案收紧了多项资格要求，SNAP 援助下降速度已快于预期。数据显示，SNAP 入册人数从 2025 年 5 月的 4220 万降至今年 5 月的 3660 万，一年内下降超过 13%。5 月数据为初步数据，可能会被修订。
As potential funding cuts loom, SNAP aid has already been dropping faster than expected since the 2025 passage of the "One Big Beautiful Bill," which tightened up several eligibility requirements. Data show SNAP enrollment fell from 42.2 million in May 2025 to 36.6 million in May, a drop of more than 13% in a year. The May data are preliminary and could be revised.