Study: SNAP errors, Medicaid costs drive Mass. safety net surge | Bay State Briefing

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A new study paints a dire picture of the financial health of the Bay State’s social safety net, arguing that rampant fraud and bureaucratic incompetence are eating away at its foundations and causing costs to surge.

The data-dense document released last week by the business-friendly Fiscal Alliance Foundation finds, among other things, that Medicaid spending now consumes $1 out of every $4 spent in the state budget…

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