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Resource | Guidance Documents Clarifications for Fiscal Action for Administrative Reviews in SY 2018-19

This memorandum provided information regarding the updated Administrative Review Manual, Forms and Tools for School Year 2018-19 to include the updated Fiscal Action Process and Workbook. Currently, regulations requires state agencies to take fiscal action for all Performance Standard 1 violations and Specific Performance Standard 2 violations identified during an administrative review.

11/30/2018
Resource | Policy FY 2019 Administrative Review and Training Grants

FNS is pleased to announce the release of the fiscal year 2019 request for applications to invite state agencies that administer the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs to apply for FY 2019 Administrative Review and Training Grants.

11/28/2018
Resource | Research and Data | Benefit Content/Cost WIC Food Package Cost Report FY 2014

This report supplements FNS administrative data on food package costs by estimating the average monthly food costs for each WIC participant category and food package type. It also estimates total pre- and post-rebate dollars spent on 17 major categories of WIC-eligible foods in FY 2014. This report is an update to the previous WIC Food Package Cost Report for FY 2010.

10/11/2018
Resource | Guidance Documents SNAP FY 2019 National Target Areas for Management Evaluations

The purpose of this memo is to transmit national target areas and procedures for the SNAP Management Evaluations for FY 2019. The FNS National Office, in collaboration with FNS regional offices, has identified three national target areas and eight at-risk program areas where resources should be directed for FY 2019.

07/26/2018
Resource | Technical Assistance SNAP Payment Error Rates: FY 2015 Measurement Issues

In 2014, USDA identified concerns with data quality issues in the SNAP quality control (QC) process and immediately began a thorough review of quality control systems in all 53 state agencies.  Due to the data quality issues uncovered in 42 of 53 state agencies during the reviews, the state-reported error rates derived from that data cannot be validated.  Since that data cannot be validated, USDA was unable to calculate a national error rate for FY15. 

06/28/2018
Resource | Guidance Documents Administrative Review – Revised Manual, Forms, and Tools (SY 2018-19)

This memorandum provides information regarding the updated School Meal Programs Administrative Review Manual for School Year 2018-2019. In previous years, all AR materials have been updated annually. This school year updates to the AR process were only made in areas regarding the Fiscal Action process and Resource Management.

05/15/2018
Resource | Guidance Documents FNS-640 SY 2016-17 Reporting Guidance

This memo provides SY 2016-17 reporting guidance for the FNS-640 report. The FNS-640 report form is scheduled to be available in the Food Programs Reporting System in January 2018. The attached revised instructions and business rules/edit checks supersede the instructions that were released with memorandum SP 25-2017, FNS-640: Administrative Review Report Form and Instructions.

01/08/2018
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