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Resource | Policy SNAP - Simplified Process for Fiscal Year 2026 Standard Utility Allowance (SUA) Values

On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025 (OBBB). Section 10104 of the OBBB prohibits state agencies from treating internet costs as an allowable shelter expense for the purposes of the excess shelter deduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

08/15/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP FY 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustments

This memorandum provides the FY 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustments to the SNAP maximum allotments, income eligibility standards, and deductions. Under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, COLAs are effective as of Oct. 1, 2025.

08/13/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP FY 2025 Allocations of Discretionary Exemptions for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents

This memorandum adjusts the total number of exemptions available to each state for FY 2025. This includes adjustments in the number of exemptions available to states in which caseloads change by more than 10 percent.

05/15/2025
Resource | Policy Coordination between SNAP State Agencies and FDPIR Administering Agencies

We are committed to upholding Secretary of Agriculture Rollins’ priority to take swift action to minimize instances of fraud, waste, and program abuse, and to ensure American taxpayer dollars are spent with integrity and accountability. We are issuing this memo, both in support of that priority and in response to requests from SNAP state agencies and FDPIR administering agencies, for additional guidance on preventing dual participation and ensuring comparable disqualifications are applied in SNAP and FDPIR.  

05/14/2025
Resource | Policy Improving Eligibility Verification to Support Program Integrity

To ensure that tax dollars do not fund SNAP benefits to illegal aliens or other ineligible aliens, State agencies should carefully examine their identity and immigration status verification practices and make necessary enhancements.

04/24/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP Further Guidance on Termination of CHNV Parole Programs

Generally speaking, immigration status has changed recently for many aliens and state agencies are encouraged to continuously verify immigration status of all aliens in the state who receive SNAP.

04/22/2025
Resource | Policy The Secretary’s Authority on Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWD) Waivers

This memorandum reiterates these fundamental objectives and their interaction with the Secretary of Agriculture’s authority to grant state SNAP agencies requests to waive the time limit on receiving SNAP benefits by ABAWDs who do not meet statutory work requirements.

04/17/2025
Resource | Policy WIC Income Eligibility Guidelines (2025-2026)

This policy memorandum transmits the 2025-2026 Income Eligibility Guidelines for WIC that were published in the Federal Register on March 10, 2025.

03/27/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP Alien Sponsors Letter

President Trump made it clear in his Executive Order, “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders,” the United States will uphold the national policy articulated in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWORA) that “aliens within the Nation’s borders not depend on public resources to meet their needs.”

03/18/2025
Resource | Policy SNAP Benefit Issuance in April 2025

In the event of a lapse in funding due the expiration of the current continuing resolution on March 15, 2025, state agencies should continue to administer the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in accordance with federal statutes and regulations, following normal processes and timelines to send issuance files and to issue benefits through the end of April 2025.

03/13/2025
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