Earlier this year, we published updates to the stocking standards required for most retailers authorized to accept SNAP benefits. Starting on November 4, 2026, retailers must comply with these standards or risk losing their ability to accept SNAP.
Fiscal year 2025 SNAP application processing timeliness rates.
Fiscal year 2025 SNAP recertification processing timeliness rates.
For FY27, we are continuing to offer state agencies a simplified option as changes from OBBB continue to be implemented. State agencies may not use a new SUA methodology to calculate their SUA values without approval from FNA and are required to update their SUA values each year.
This memorandum provides the FY 2027 Cost-of-Living Adjustments to the SNAP maximum allotments, income eligibility standards, and deductions. Under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, COLAs are effective as of Oct. 1, 2026.
This collection is a reinstatement with revision of a currently expired information collection. This information collection, the FNS-245, Negative Case Action Review Schedule, is designed to collect quality control data and serve as the data entry form for negative case action QC reviews in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
This collection is a reinstatement with revision of a currently expired information collection. This information collection, the FNS-380, Worksheet for Quality Control Reviews, is a form designed to collect quality control data and serve as the data entry form for QC case reviews in the active sampling frame for SNAP.
The SNAP E&T Fiscal Management Toolkit provides state agencies with a practical, end-to-end framework for managing program funds strategically, transparently, and in alignment with program goals.
This rule codifies a new framework for determining distinct staple food varieties for meeting staple food stocking requirements for retailer participation in SNAP.
We published updates to the stocking standards required for most retailers authorized to accept SNAP benefits. Starting on Nov. 4, 2026, all retailers other than specialty stores (e.g., butchers, farm stands) will be required to comply with these standards or risk losing your ability to redeem SNAP.