Social services secretary reports declining payment error rate in food assistance

Read Article The Kansas social services secretary said Wednesday that the state's payment error rate for food-assistance benefits had dipped to 7.5% for the first four months of the current fiscal year as officials try to dodge penalties that would be levied by the federal government. Laura Howard briefed Gov. Laura Kelly and leading lawmakers on Wednesday on new food-assistance data for the first four months of the federal fiscal year that began last October.