The Big Beautiful Bill required states to clamp down on fraud and abuse.

States with error rates over 6% will no longer get 100% federal funding for their food stamp programs. They will still get 85 to 95% federal funding, but the risk of having even a little skin in the game has been enough to get the states to finally get serious about reforming this program, enforcing work requirements and cracking down on fraud.

Over the past year enrollment has subsided. The chart below shows which states have seen the largest declines.