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• Statement on HHSC Earning $6.2 Million in Incentives for Accuracy in SNAP Payments
• Testimony on Eliminating Finger Imaging for Food Stamps
• Testimony: Sustaining Progress Made in Eligibility System Will Require Additional Resources for Caseload Growth, Implementation of Health Care Reform

Privatization of Health and Human Services Eligibility Determination

With a now defunct proposal to privatize its eligibility determination system for health and human services, Texas has been a national leader in the arena of social services privatization. Since 1995, Texas has been developing a plan to award a seven-year, $2.8 billion (estimate) contract to a private company (or a public/private partnership) to operate the state's eligibility system.