USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins promises “structural changes to SNAP” after Thanksgiving, following her controversial mass recertification proposal. But Cato’s Romina Boccia and Tyler Turman argue in a new blog post that the real problem isn’t paperwork—it’s incentives.
States have zero financial stake in preventing fraud because Washington pays 100% of the benefits costs. Boccia and Turman explain why block-granting SNAP and shifting fiscal responsibility to states would actually strengthen program integrity.
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