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Resource | Policy Comment Request - Assessment of Administrative Costs of Electronic Healthy Incentives Projects

The aim of this study is to calculate the costs of eHIP in three states to determine the startup and ongoing costs of administering incentives to SNAP households through EBT integration and to estimate the cost of administering eHIP at scale.

11/25/2024
Resource | Policy Proposed Collection Request for Comments - Guidance for SNAP Certification and Quality Control Interviews Study

This notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on this proposed information collection. This is a new information collection for the contract of the study titled Guidance for SNAP Certification and Quality Control Interviews.

11/19/2024
Resource | Policy Final Rule - SNAP: Standardization of State Heating and Cooling Standard Utility Allowances

This final rule amends SNAP regulations for calculating standard utility allowances (SUAs) and expands allowable shelter expenses to include basic internet costs. The rule also finalizes updates to the treatment of Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program payments. 

11/18/2024
Resource | Policy Final Rule: SNAP Employment and Training Program Monitoring, Oversight and Reporting Measures

On Nov. 18, 2024, FNS published the final rule Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Program Monitoring, Oversight and Reporting Measures. The final rule implements the SNAP E&T provisions of section 4022(a)(2) of the Agricultural Act of 2014.

11/18/2024
Resource | Policy Information Collection: FNS-245 SNAP Negative Case Action Review Schedule

This collection is a revision of a currently approved collection. This information collection, the FNS-245, Negative Case Action Review Schedule, is designed to collect quality control (QC) data and serve as the data entry form for negative case action QC reviews in SNAP.

10/25/2024
Resource | Policy Longitudinal Study of SNAP Households AKA The Study of Household Insights and Nutritional Experiences (SHINE)

This new collection will provide key information from a large representative sample of SNAP households to enable FNS to examine how SNAP households change through time.

10/18/2024
Resource | Policy SNAP Benefit Expungement and Off-Line Storage

This collection is an extension, without change, of a currently approved collection. This collection is for providing SNAP households advance or concurrent notice of state agency action to store unused SNAP benefits offline due to three or more months of account inactivity and for those households to seek reinstatement of benefits prior to permanent expungement. 

10/15/2024
Resource | Policy Proposed Rule Withdrawal - Disaster SNAP

This document informs the public that FNS is withdrawing the proposed rule titled Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that published in the Federal Register on May 10, 2016.

09/27/2024
Resource | Policy SNAP-Ed Intervention Scoring Tool FNS-885 and Intervention Submission Form FNS-886

FNS updated the forms and burden estimates based on consultations with SNAP-Ed state and implementing agency partners, other federal agencies, and users of the forms.

09/19/2024
Resource | Policy SNAP Mobile Payment Pilots

This is a revision of an existing information collection to conduct demonstration pilot projects to test the redemption of SNAP benefits through mobile payment technologies.

08/23/2024
Page updated: October 14, 2021