Pi Hole ignoring rate limiting settings

I'm having issues getting my Pi Hole to respect rate limiting settings. After some investigation I noticed that the values under Settings - DNS were going into the pihole-FTL.conf file as RATE_LIMIT= but looking at the logs on startup the configuration section would always say RATE_LIMIT: Rate-limiting client making more than 1000 queries in 60 seconds no matter what values I put into the settings/configuration.