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News of the Day June 26, 2026
Wisconsin’s SNAP Error Rates are Low, According to Federal Review
The rate at which Wisconsin distributes too much or too little food assistance is among the lowest in the nation, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
According to the estimates measuring all states and U.S. territories, Wisconsin’s error rate for the last fiscal year was 5.72 percent. That’s just over half of the nationwide error rate of 10.62 percent.
Just seven other states, and the Virgin Islands, had lower error rates, according to the USDA data.
The USDA’s error rate measures both overpayments and underpayments of federal food assistance dollars, known nationally as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and in Wisconsin as FoodShare.
Under a provision of last summer’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, states that exceed a 6 percent error rate will have to shoulder a share of the cost of the program. The size of that share increases as the error rate grows.
More than one in 10 Wisconsinites receive food assistance each month. Roughly 40 percent of those recipients are children.