Overview
- Ohio now requires recipients ages 55–64 and households with children 14–18 to meet an 80-hour-per-month work standard, according to the state’s Job and Family Services department.
- President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act reduces SNAP by $186 billion over 10 years and eliminates work-rule exemptions for veterans, people experiencing homelessness, and those aging out of foster care.
- The law raises states’ financial exposure by increasing their share of administrative costs and tying liability to payment error rates, with larger repayments triggered by higher error levels.
- An estimate from the Center for Community Solutions indicates Ohio could owe $318 million if its error rate matches last year’s performance under the new penalty framework.
- USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins cited 686,000 improperly issued benefits as evidence of serious problems, while Data 4 the People’s Eric Pachman said that equates to roughly a 1.6% error rate for a program serving about 42 million people.