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Resource | Policy Food Stamp Program: Modifying the Limit on Civil Money Penalties for Trafficking in Benefit Redemption Instruments

This final rule implements those nondiscretionary provisions pertaining to increased limits for civil money penalties for trafficking in benefit redemption instruments and for selling firearms, ammunition, explosives, or controlled substances for benefit redemption instruments. The intended effect of this rule is to raise the amounts of civil money penalties paid by authorized firms for the types of violations specified.

05/23/1994
Resource | Policy Memos Extension of Infant Formula Rebate Contracts

In consultation with the Office of the General Counsel, FNS has determined that state agencies may not exercise any options to renew, extend, or otherwise continue any infant formula cost containment contract at amounts not specified in the original contract.

05/10/1994
Resource | Policy National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Competitive Foods

On Jan. 6, 1993, the Food and Drug Administration announced in a final rule that, effective May 8, 1994, the current food label reference values, the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowances, will be identified as the Reference Daily Intakes, or RDIs.

05/06/1994
Resource | Policy Memos Food Distribution on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)

The purpose of this policy memorandum is to provide clarification that FDPIR meets the regulatory requirements as an automatic income eligibility program for purposes of WIC program income determination.

05/03/1994
Resource | Final Rule Final Rule - FSP Technical Amendments Concerning Disabled in Group Homes and Income Exclusion for Plans for Achieving Self-Support

This document contains a correction to the final regulation (59 FR 5697) published on Feb. 8, 1994. The regulations concerned certain provisions of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991 that dealt with disabled persons in group homes and income exclusions for Plans for Achieving Self-Support.

05/03/1994
Resource | Policy Memos Group and Family Day Care Homes

As promised at the National Summer Food Service Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program Conference in Baltimore, this memorandum provides a re-statement of the FNS policy regarding the definition of group and family day care homes in the CACFP.

 

05/02/1994
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations The Evaluation of Maryland EBT Demonstration: Final Results

The Maryland demonstration was the first statewide roll-out of an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system involving multiple programs on a single card. The goal was to confirm that a large- scale, multi-program EBT system is technically feasible and determine whether such a system can achieve cost-neutrality government-wide while maintaining high quality service for recipients. The test involved food stamps plus five cash-benefit programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Bonus Child Support for AFDC Recipients, Disability Assistance Loan Program, Non-Public Assistance Child Support, and Public Assistance for Adults. All parts of Maryland, both urban and rural, were converted to EBT.

05/01/1994
Resource | Proposed Rule Proposed Rule: FSP Income Exemption for Homeless Households in Transitional Housing Required by the Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act

This rule proposes to amend Food Stamp Program regulations to implement section 13914 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act), which amended section 5(k)(2)(F) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require that the full value of any public or general assistance housing payments made to a third party on behalf of a household residing in transitional housing for the homeless be excluded from the household's income for food stamp purposes.

04/11/1994
Resource Food Stamp Program: Administrative Improvement and Simplification Provisions From the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988

This action places into final form an interim Food Stamp Program rule published on June 7, 1989. The interim rulemaking implemented Food Stamp Program provisions contained in the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988.

04/06/1994
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations The Impacts of Off-Line Electronic Benefits Transfer Demonstration

The objectives of the demonstration were to determine the technological feasibility of offline EBT; whether it would be accepted by stakeholder groups; and whether it would be cost-effective.

04/01/1994
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