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Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0015 WIC Income Eligibility Guidelines (2016-2017)

This policy memorandum transmits the 2016-2017 Income Eligibility Guidelines (IEGs) for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) that were published in the Federal Register on March 18, 2016.

2016-3
03/29/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0014 SNAP Employment and Training Program Monitoring, Oversight and Reporting Measures

The interim final rule, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment and Training (E&T) Program Monitoring, Oversight and Reporting Measures, was published in the Federal Register on March 24, 2016. States are required to include reporting measures in their E&T State Plans for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2017.

03/24/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0013 SNAP Employment and Training WIOA Unified and Combined State Plans

This memorandum provides guidance to state agencies on the SNAP Employment and Training requirements when opting to submit E&T plan components as part of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act combined state plan.

03/14/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0012 Reporting Instructions for Form FNS-874: Local Educational Agency Second Review of Applications

Section 304 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 requires local educational agencies that demonstrate high levels of, or a high risk for administrative error associated with certification, verification and other administrative processes to conduct an independent review of the initial eligibility determinations for free and reduced price school meal applications for accuracy prior to notifying households of eligibility. 

SP29-2016
03/09/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0010 FDA Requirements for Vending Machines

On Dec. 1, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration published the final rule, Food Labeling; Calorie Labeling of Articles of Food in Vending Machines, in the Federal Register.

SP28 CACFP09 SFSP11-2016
03/02/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0011 FY 2016 Reallocation of CACFP Audit Funds

This memorandum provides information needed to conduct the fiscal year 2016 reallocation of CACFP Audit funds.

CACFP07-2016
02/22/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0006 Review of Major Changes in Program Design and Management Evaluation Systems Final Rule - Additional Guidance and Q&As

This memorandum provides additional guidance and questions and answers for state agencies to implement the Review of Major Changes in Program Design and Management Evaluation Systems final rule.

02/11/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0004 Integrity of the SNAP Quality Control System

This memorandum is intended to clarify existing regulatory and policy guidance to ensure awareness of our shared responsibility to preserve the integrity of SNAP's quality control system, based on findings from recent FNS reviews of state quality control operations.

SNAP QC Policy Memo: 2016-02
01/20/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0003 Preventing Bias, Misusing Error Review Committees and Third Party Consultants, Federal Access to State Systems, and State Responsibility to Address Over and Under Issuances

This memorandum is intended to clarify existing regulatory and policy guidance to ensure awareness of our shared responsibility to preserve the integrity of SNAP's quality control system, based on findings from recent FNS reviews of state quality control operations.

SNAP QC Policy Memo 2016-02
01/20/2016
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0005 Implementation Memo: SNAP Review of Major Changes in Program Design and Management Evaluation Systems

This memorandum provides a brief summary describing the Review of Major Changes in Program Design and Management Systems final rule's provisions and outlines the next steps in its implementation.

01/19/2016
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