Welfare-to-Work Solutions Will Help Pennsylvanians Escape Poverty

Originally published by The Center Square.

Pennsylvania has a welfare problem. And if Gov. Josh Shapiro and his administration don’t get their act together, it will cost Pennsylvanians hundreds of millions of their hard-earned tax dollars in the long run.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Pennsylvania—along with Kentucky, Michigan and Minnesota—for refusing to share five years of data regarding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Why won’t the Shapiro administration turn over this information? What are they trying to hide?

This lawsuit follows the news of Pennsylvania’s atrociously high SNAP payment error rate. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released data revealing the commonwealth’s payment error rate is 9.2%.  With more than $4.3 billion in annual SNAP benefits to Pennsylvanians, that amounts to about $350 million in overpayments.

Read more at The Center Square.