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Resource | Policy SNAP FY 2025 Allocations of Discretionary Exemptions for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents

This memorandum adjusts the total number of exemptions available to each state for FY 2025. This includes adjustments in the number of exemptions available to states in which caseloads change by more than 10 percent.

05/15/2025
Resource | Policy Final Rule - CACFP: Rescission of Obsolete Data Collection Requirements

This rule rescinds an obsolete data collection requirement in regulations regarding the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

05/12/2025
Resource | Policy FNS Data Sharing Guidance

On March 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14243, Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos. Among myriad important directives, this Executive Order required agency heads to “take all necessary steps, to the maximum extent consistent with law, to ensure the Federal Government has unfettered access to comprehensive data from all state programs that receive federal funding, including, as appropriate, data generated by those programs but maintained in third-party databases.”

05/06/2025
Resource | Policy Improving Eligibility Verification to Support Program Integrity

To ensure that tax dollars do not fund SNAP benefits to illegal aliens or other ineligible aliens, State agencies should carefully examine their identity and immigration status verification practices and make necessary enhancements.

04/24/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP Further Guidance on Termination of CHNV Parole Programs

Generally speaking, immigration status has changed recently for many aliens and state agencies are encouraged to continuously verify immigration status of all aliens in the state who receive SNAP.

04/22/2025
Resource | Policy The Secretary’s Authority on Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD) Waivers

This memorandum reiterates these fundamental objectives and their interaction with the Secretary of Agriculture’s authority to grant state SNAP agencies requests to waive the time limit on receiving SNAP benefits by ABAWDs who do not meet statutory work requirements.

04/17/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP Guidance on Termination of CHNV Parole Programs

The March 25, 2025, notice issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security entitled “Termination of Parole Processes: Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans” terminates the categorical parole programs established in 2022 and 2023 for aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members (known as “CHNV parole programs”). Parole status for all aliens under the CHNV parole programs will terminate by April 24, 2025, if such status has not already expired before that date.

04/03/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP Application Processing Timeliness Letter to Governors

USDA letter to Governors about SNAP Application Processing Timeliness.

04/01/2025
Resource | Policy SFMNP Income Eligibility Guidelines (2025-2026)

This policy memorandum transmits the 2025-2026 Income Eligibility Guidelines (IEGs) for the Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.

03/27/2025
Resource | Policy WIC Income Eligibility Guidelines (2025-2026)

This policy memorandum transmits the 2025-2026 Income Eligibility Guidelines for WIC that were published in the Federal Register on March 10, 2025.

03/27/2025
Page updated: October 14, 2021