This final rule expands the food stamp eligibility of certain blind and disabled individuals residing in group homes and excludes income of an SSI recipient necessary for the fulfillment of a Plan for Achieving Self Support (PASS).
This rule proposes to freeze the performance-based grants at the level the state agencies received in fiscal year 1993, for two years from promulgation of this rule in final form.
This rule proposes to revise program regulations to implement changes made by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (the "2014 Farm Bill"), which amends the definition of "retail food store" in the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (the FNA) to include governmental or private nonprofit food purchasing and delivery services (P&D Services) that purchase and deliver food to households in which the head of household is an individual who is unable to shop for food, and who is 60 years of age or older, or physically or mentally handicapped or otherwise disabled.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice invites the general public and other public agencies to comment on a proposed information collection. The purpose of the Food Programs Reporting System is to facilitate data gathering for the reporting of data for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Special Nutrition Programs.
This final rule excludes medical marijuana from being treated as an allowable medical expense for the purposes of determining the excess medical expense deduction under SNAP.
In Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Parts 210 to 299, revised as of Jan. 1, 2015, on page 944, in 275.11, in paragraph (g), remove the fourth sentence which reads ‘‘However, all results of reviews of active and negative demonstration project/SSA processed cases shall be excluded from the determination of state agencies’ active and negative case error rates, payment error rates, and under-issuance error rates as described in 275.23(c).’’
Under Section 7(h)(9) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended (the Act), states have the option to require that a SNAP Electronic Benefit Transfer card contains a photo of one or more household members.
This rule finalizes provisions of the proposed rule entitled Review of Major Changes in Program Design and Management Evaluation Systems, which was published May 3, 2011.
This interim final rule requires that state agencies access employment data through the NDNH at the time of SNAP certification, including recertification, and aims to improve Program integrity by reducing the risk of improper payments due to unreported or misreported income.
FNS proposes to make changes to the SNAP regulations pertaining to the eligibility of SNAP retail food stores.