# @aldotcom on YouTube

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- **Posted:** 2026-01-23T00:30:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** AL.com (@aldotcom) — https://gondola.cc/aldotcom

## Caption

An Alabama Senate committee approved a bill that would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency and Department of Human Resources to cross-check eligibility for assistance programs.

SB 61, sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, would require the agencies to conduct at least monthly checks of enrollees of each program.

According to the Legislative Fiscal Office, the additional work for both agencies could cost at least $16.7 million per year total for both agencies.

The bill requires DHR and other state agencies to check recipients’ home addresses, death records and incarceration status on a monthly basis. The bill also requires Alabama Medicaid and other state agencies to check recipients’ income, employment and disability status on a quarterly basis.

Supporters of the bill said that it is needed because of the state’s error rate for SNAP; when either DHR or enrollees make a mistake on paperwork 
resulting in too many or too little benefits each month.

In July, DHR’s food assistant director said that out of $1.77B issued in SNAP benefits in Alabama in fiscal year 2024, payment errors totaled about $36,000, which were rarely due to fraud.

Orr has filed a version of the bill nearly every year since 2016, but the legislation never left the Senate. Carol Gundlach, a senior policy analyst for Alabama Arise, hopes that this version will meet the same fate.

“The SNAP program, especially in Alabama, is a really well-run program. They do it very efficiently and at an economic cost that is not too burdensome for the state,” Gundlach said in an interview after the meeting. “If it’s not broken, why are we trying to fix it?”

Reporting by Anna Barrett and Alabama Reflector
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#SNAPbenefits #fraud #alabama #foodstamps #fraudprevention #EBT

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foodstamps, ebt, snapbenefits, fraudprevention, alabama, fraud

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