WA sues contractor to prevent sharing of food stamp data with feds
Washington’s attorney general on Thursday sued to stop its food stamp payment processor from sharing program participants’ data with the federal government, which could use the information for immigration enforcement.
But the company, Fidelity Information Services, indicated late Thursday that it had no plans to hand over the data in question without being told to do so by state officials.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in May requested that states and contractors provide personal data of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients and applicants going back five years. A letter to states explained the rationale was to “ensure program integrity, including by verifying the eligibility of benefit recipients.”
This followed President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to get data from state programs that receive federal funding and to stop that money from going to immigrants without legal status.
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