Lawmakers urged follow-up actions: request a fiscal/budget estimate on adopting broad-based categorical eligibility (BBCE), pursue application and notice redesign pilots, task agencies to report on modernization options (including Celonis proof-of-value) and meet again in the interim to track progress.

The Department for Children and Families told the council it has reduced SNAP payment‑error rates from double digits toward the federal target, but officials warned that a rate above 6% could shift roughly $20 million in annual benefit costs to the state; members pressed DCF on verification, front‑end application accuracy and contingency planning.

Legislative auditors reported that limited testing of EBT transactions suggests about $700,000–$1,200,000 in SNAP benefits may have been paid to recipients who appeared to live out of state during FY2023–24; auditors and DCF officials stressed federal privacy rules and implementation costs constrain responses.

More than a dozen witnesses told the Committee on Government Efficiency that Senate Bill 363’s shift from annual to quarterly eligibility checks would create administrative churn, risk Medicaid and SNAP losses for eligible Kansans, and likely raise state implementation costs without improving outcomes.

Nonprofit witnesses told the Committee on Social Services Budget that recent federal changes shifted a larger share of SNAP administrative costs to states, and urged the committee to fund $12.1 million in FY27 plus a separate $2.1 million proposal to reduce SNAP payment errors and protect benefit access for thousands of Kansas children.

Department for Children and Families told the Committee on Social Services Budget that HR 1’s changes to SNAP would shift administrative costs to the state and could expose Kansas to benefit liabilities tied to a payment‑error‑rate metric; DCF requested technology investments and staffing to reduce error rates and $12.1 million SGF in FY27.

Deputy Secretary Tanya Keyes and Secretary Laura Howard told the committee the state is working to reduce SNAP payment-error rates below the federal 6% target, reported recent monthly reviews at 5.5%, and described a pending federal data-notice dispute with USDA that Kansas is appealing.

Committee examines SNAP fraud statistics and seeks clarifications on data inconsistencies.