The Alaska Department of Health is at risk of losing federal funding because of an ongoing backlog in reviewing food assistance applications, federal officials told the state last month.
The state has repeatedly failed to comply with deadlines to process applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, leaving thousands of Alaskans waiting months for help.
The processing backlog has persisted despite the state spending tens of millions of dollars to address it, and despite orders from state and federal judges for the Alaska Division of Public Assistance to improve its p...
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