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- Jerralee King, an 84-year-old Houston resident, must repay about $9,000 in SNAP benefits after the Texas Health and Human Services Commission admitted an error in her payments.
- She had received SNAP benefits monthly for three and a half years before being informed she was ineligible.
- The U.S. Department of the Treasury plans to garnish her Social Security benefits to recover the repayment.
- Legal experts emphasize monitoring SNAP benefits to avoid similar situations.
