The quality control sampling plan is necessary for FNS to monitor state operations and is essential to the determination of a state agency's error rate and corresponding entitlement to increased Federal share of its administrative costs or liability for sanctions.
Summary of Collection:
Section 16 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, provides the legislative basis for the operation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Quality Control system. The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), as administrator of the SNAP, requires each state agency to implement a quality control system to provide basis for determining each state agency's error rates through review of a sample of SNAP cases. Each state agency is responsible for the design and selection of the quality control samples and must submit a quality control sampling plan for approval to FNS. However, state agencies are required to maintain case records for three years to ensure compliance with provisions of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
In addition, the date of an administrative closure could cause the case to be kept more than three years after the initial case review. This particularly impacts the arbitration component of this collection.