This letter describes the new statutory requirements for state agency implementation of the Food Stamp Program provisions of PL 104-193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. We are also providing information regarding proposed and interim rules the FCS will publish and guidance relating to the Simplified Program option, FCS waiver authority, and quality control.
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 stipulates that able-bodied, childless adults may only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 36-month period unless they work at least 20 hours a week; participate in an approved work or training program; or live in an area that has been waived from the time limit due to either an unemployment rate higher than 10 percent, or insufficient jobs.
This memorandum addresses provisions which reduce the number of reimbursable meals that can be claimed by camps and migrant site in SFSP and child care centers in CACFP.
This is to provide you with clarification regarding the recipient/farmer surveys and the FNS-203, FMNP Recipient Report.
This memorandum responds to regional requests at the Seattle meeting for clarification regarding States’ authority to maintain a list of seriously deficient day care home providers.
This policy memo supersedes the first question in Policy Memo 86-21. The change is being made to increase flexibility in reporting in this area.
This is to provide you with clarification concerning the use of farmer and market identifiers on FMNP coupons. FMNP regulations require that each coupon be marked with a farmer identifier.
The purpose of this policy memorandum is to provide guidance concerning a state's responsibility to properly conduct rebate billing and collection activities and provisions which should be included in a state agency's RFPs or IFBs and contracts for infant formula rebates to avoid rebate billing discrepancies.
On Oct. 10, 1995, we transmitted questions to the IRS regarding concerns raised by state administrators of the CACFP at the September 1995 CACFP Initiative Task Force meeting. These concerns related to the recent revision to the criteria for granting tax exemption to sponsoring organizations of family day care homes from the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Handbook.