$6.64B at risk: Social Services misses payment accuracy target across $237B budget
The Department of Social Services manages $237 billion a year in payments but hit only 94.2% accuracy against a 97% target — a 2.8 percentage point gap. Applied across the total budget, that gap puts roughly $6.64 billion of your taxes at risk of being paid incorrectly, whether overpayments, underpayments, or payments to the wrong people.