Wisconsin 1 of 9 states to avoid SNAP payment error rate penalty

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin was one of nine states to avoid paying penalties for having a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program error rate on payments of more than 6% in fiscal 2025.

Wisconsin’s 5.72% error rate fell below the 10.62% payment error rate average in the U.S.

Only South Dakota (2.45%), Idaho (3.85%), Wyoming (3.95%), Kentucky (4.7%), Iowa (5.34%), the U.S. Virgin Islands (5.36%), Vermont (5.38%), Utah (5.54%) and Nebraska (5.9%) avoided the penalty.

Wisconsin’s penalty would have been $205.5 million. Wisconsin’s 2024 error rate was 4.47%.

Gov. Tony Evers’ office sent a press release claiming that error rates “do not measure fraud, are based on unintentional mistakes states do not control, and no state will ever have a zero-percent error rate.”

Wisconsin Act 116, signed at the end of March, provided $72 million in funding toward SNAP administration in the state. But the error rate numbers announced this week were for the fiscal year ending on Sept. 3...