New cost-shareProvisions of the law make states responsible, for the first time, for paying a share of SNAP benefits. The share that states will be responsible for depends on a state’s error payment rate — the percentage of benefit payments that are more or less than the amount that should be paid — with the federal government covering all benefit costs for states that record error rates below 6%. States with higher error rates will be responsible for more funding. Requiring states with higher error rates to pay a share of the benefits was about effectively managing the program, he said. “I’m glad someone from Wyoming is here to talk about how to reduce error rates,” McGovern said.