Approval letter from FNS, for Puerto Rico's FY 2024 Nutrition Assistance Program State Plan of Operations and revised budget.
State agencies and sponsors may use this tool to determine if a proposed site may be designated as rural for purposes of the Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option.
Letter to WIC state agencies on unwinding and impacts of infant formula shortage.
FNS works with state agencies to ensure eligible individuals and households can make informed decisions about applying for the program and access nutrition assistance benefits. FNS also provides technical assistance as needed.
The USDA, its agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA.
This memorandum provides a reminder to state agencies that under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, all eligible households must have the opportunity to participate in SNAP within 30 days of application or seven days if they are entitled to expedited service.
Project summaries for the 28 TEFAP state agencies that received fiscal year 2023 Farm to Food Bank project funding.
The SNAP Characteristics report provides information about the demographic and economic circumstances of SNAP households in FY 2020. Because the coronavirus COVID-19 public health emergency affected data collection starting in March 2020, statistics are reported by prepandemic period of October 2019 through February 2020 and the early pandemic period of June to September 2020 (March through May were not reported).
FNS is delaying the effective date for the interim final rule - SNAP: Requirement for Interstate Data Matching to Prevent Duplicate Issuances - until Dec. 6, 2022.
The WIC Food Cost-Containment Practices Study describes the voluntarily approaches state agencies used in 2018 to reduce food costs when selecting and authorizing WIC foods. This study is the second of its kind; the first was conducted by the USDA Economic Research Service in 2003. This report examines how six types of food cost-containment practices are associated with food costs and WIC participant satisfaction, benefit redemption, and food consumption in 12 state agencies.