Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that nearly 700,000 SNAP fraudsters have been found in cooperating states, calling it the "tip of the iceberg."?

 From CBS article

A. Her number is almost double what the VP said. She claims that almost 2% of all SNAP benefits are fraudulent. And there are more to be caught.

B. Notice how they never tell you what the cost of that fraud is versus what they are spending to find it. For example, if you are spending 10 million after recovering funds to stop a million-dollar-worth of fraud, it is not money well spent unless the whole point is to justify shutting down the program. Nationwide, the average SNAP benefit is $188 per person, per month. The yearly budget is $101.7 billion for about 38+ million people. Benefits paid $95 billion. Which leaves about $6.7 billion for admin, including fraud detection. Her inflated number would put the fraud at about $1.5 billion if each "fraudster" got a year's worth of benefits illegally. From the article, it would seem they spent well beyond that $6.7 billion to find extra fraud. So, how much extra did they spend to find what amount of added fraud?

C. From the VP's statements, almost 1/3 were dead people, and most of the rest were getting benefits in multiple states. Both of which should have been pretty easy to check. Especially at the national level. So that finger might be pointing the wrong way. Or maybe she is including instances of fraud in which benefits were paid out due to a lag in processing paperwork for people who died or moved?

In short, no details, just hype.