The state's social services secretary says Kansas is making progress toward lowering its payment error rate for the federal food-assistance program in an effort to save the state from paying millions in penalties.
Laura Howard briefed lawmakers this week on new data from 2025 that shows the payment error rate for Kansas is trending downward as it faces the prospect of paying millions more to match food-assistance money coming to the state.
Starting in October 2027, the state will have to start matching food-assistance benefits based on its payment error rate, which assesses the accuracy of . . .
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