USDA steps up SNAP fraud crackdown and moves to close eligibility loophole

8 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 1

Secretary Brooke Rollins said one state has 14,000 SNAP recipients with luxury cars, while USDA found 500,000 duplicate beneficiaries, 244,000 dead recipients and 895 arrests in the past year.
The department says it is close to fixing Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility, which critics say lets some wealthy people qualify, and is reorganising nutrition staff from Washington to Indianapolis, Dallas, Denver and Kansas City.
SNAP is the largest US anti-hunger programme and a longstanding reform target; USDA says 4.2 million fewer people received benefits in President Donald Trump's first year as enforcement tightened.

With SNAP reforms targeting fraud, how will the USDA protect vulnerable families from being wrongly denied essential food assistance?

The USDA is spending millions to relocate staff. What evidence shows this move will improve food programs, not just disrupt them?