Expert say officials overrely on purchase dataNational legal experts who specialize in SNAP access say an overreliance on transactional data isn’t unique to Kentucky. She lost her SNAP benefits for a year. They appear to almost exclusively discuss transactional data, including investigating back-to-back payments, large transactions and whole-dollar purchases. In 2020, Michigan appellate judges decided transactional data alone is never sufficient to prove that a business — or person — fraudulently used SNAP benefits. … But cases with non-transactional data are exceedingly rare.”___Associated Press data journalist Kasturi Pananjady contributed to this report.