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Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0094 Offer Versus Serve and Family Style Meals in the Child and Adult Care Food Program

This memorandum outlines the use of offer versus serve in the adult day care and at-risk afterschool settings in the Child and Adult Care Food Program and the use of family style meals in the CACFP.

CACFP05-2017
12/09/2016
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-2015-0033 Updated Offer vs Serve Guidance for the NSLP and SBP Beginning SY2015-16

Offer versus Serve is a provision in the NSLP and School Breakfast Program that allows students to decline some of the food offered. The goals of OVS are to reduce food waste in the school meals programs while permitting students to decline foods they do not intend to eat. 

SP41-2015
07/21/2015
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2012-0035 Approval of SNAP E&T Plans

This memorandum sets forth SNAP State Employment and Training plan approval policies. This guidance is based upon a similar memo regarding SNAP Nutrition Education Plans, issued June 16, 2006.

05/30/2012
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0035 Required Reimbursements to Participants in the SNAP E&T Program

FNS closely reviews state spending on the SNAP Employment and Training Program. Recently, we noticed that an increasing number of state agencies do not spend money on allowable participant reimbursements, such as transportation and dependent care.

05/11/2011
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0019 Zero benefit households and Employment and Training Services

This memo clarifies FNS policy on serving zero benefit households through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program employment and training program.

03/16/2011
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2010-0011 SNAP - Employment and Training Education Components, Allowable Costs and Federal Reimbursement

The purpose of this memorandum is to clarify some cost principles of the SNAP Employment and Training program.

03/18/2010
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2009-0039 SNAP - Funding Education Components in the Employment and Training Program

The purpose of this memorandum is to reinforce the importance of carefully monitoring the funding of E&T activities-especially education components-operated by state agencies as part of their SNAP E&T programs.

05/27/2009
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2009-0029 Employment and Training Questions FY 2009

Attached are questions and answers on the SNAP Employment and Training program in response to questions raised by the states in various discussions about E&T requirements.

04/08/2009
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