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Resource | Policy Memos Q&A – Implementation of New Racial/Ethnic Data Collection

Attached is a Q&A fact sheet that answers questions and provides further guidance on the new racial/ethnic data collection and the new FNS-101 reporting. The July 31, 2006, memorandum offers further policy guidance on this regulation.

09/21/2006
Resource | Policy Memos Food Stamp Outreach Plan Activities

This memorandum addresses questions recently raised about the allowable scope of formal state Food Stamp Program outreach plans. The specific issue is whether state FSP outreach plans may include activities directed to access and retention of current participants in addition to outreach and education efforts directed to nonparticipating persons.

06/19/2006
Resource | Policy Annual Physical Inventory-Reconciliation of Book Inventory to Physical Inventory

This general USDA Foods guidance memorandum provides instructions on how to reconcile the physical inventory conducted at a distributing agency- or subdistributing agency-level storage facility with the book inventory required to be maintained for that facility.

06/15/2006
Resource | Research and Data | Participation Rates Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 2004

This report is the latest in a series on food stamp participation rates based on the March Current Population Survey, and presents national participation rates for fiscal year 2004.

06/01/2006
Resource | Policy Memos Issues Relating to Block Claims Submitted by Sponsored Child Care Centers and Family Day Care Homes

This memorandum addresses the extension of the original guidance, as well as several other questions that have arisen regarding implementation of the block claim requirement.

05/23/2006
Resource | Policy Memos Prohibition on State Agencies’ Establishing Geographic Territories for Sponsoring Organizations in the CACFP

The purpose of this memorandum is to clarify that policies establishing limits on the specific and/or exclusive geographic areas in which CACFP sponsoring organizations may operate are inconsistent with program regulations and, as such, prohibited.

04/13/2006
Resource | Policy Annual Physical Inventory - Reconciliation and Offsetting

This general USDA Foods guidance memorandum provides guidance on how to reconcile physical and book inventories as part of the required annual physical inventory of distributing agency and sub-distributing agency storage facilities, and provides guidance on offsetting inventory shortages and overages that are identified during the reconciliation process.

01/27/2006
Resource | Policy Memos FY 2006 Reallocation of State Administrative Expense Funds

This memorandum and attachments provide the information needed to conduct the FY 2006 reallocation of SAE funds.

01/24/2006
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