This memorandum provides revised policy guidance on certification periods pertaining to zero income households in FDPIR. FNS Handbook 501 provides that households who report zero income month after month must be asked as to how they sustain themselves and other household members.
In recent years, FNS has approved several innovative waiver requests that have afforded states new flexibility in administering SNAP. Because these waivers are relatively new, untested, and complex, FNS categorizes them as "novel" waivers.
Attached are Questions and Answers related to the final rule published in the Federal Register on February 6, 2014 titled, Independent Review of Applications Required by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
This memo is to inform you of clarifications related to the use of telephonic signatures in SNAP. The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 requires that state agencies consider an application to be complete if it contains the client's name, address, and signature.
Attached are Quality Control related questions and answers pertaining to the Agricultural Act of 2014. The questions cover the application of the 120-day QC hold harmless period, the implementation of the QC tolerance level for small errors, QC standards and performance bonus payments.
The attached questions and answers are intended to address state agency concerns about the effects of the Agricultural Act of 2014 on outreach in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The purpose of this memorandum is to remind state agencies, school food authorities, schools, and sponsoring organizations operating in the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and the Summer Food Service Program about data sharing requirements and opportunities.
On Feb. 7, 2014, Congress passed the Agricultural Act of 2014 which reauthorizes the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Below are the SNAP retailer provisions that are effective immediately.
This policy memorandum implements the vendor preauthorization provision of the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2014.
This memorandum provides the information needed to conduct the FY 2014 reallocation of CACFP audit funds. Reallocation is the process by which state agencies can request additional CACFP audit funds above their initial authorized funding level.