Tennessee faces estimated $220M in extra SNAP costs under new federal rules

By: Cassandra Stephenson

Outlets: Tennessee Lookout

Published: October 2, 2026

Words: 522

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Tennessee may have to carve out an additional $220 million from its budget next year to continue funding the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed more of the program’s costs to states.

The total new costs to Tennessee depend, in part, on the state’s SNAP payment error rate — a measure of the number of households that receive either less or more food assistance than …

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