USDA Awards $2.5 Million in Grants to Strengthen SNAP Integrity

On Aug. 13, 2021, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) awarded approximately $2.5 million in SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grants to support state agency efforts to improve and expand recipient fraud prevention, detection, and investigation efforts using the procedures, ideas and practices outlined in the SNAP Fraud Framework.

Background

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) awarded the SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grants to support five state agency projects:

• Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)-$750,000
• Missouri Department of Social Services-$415,025
• Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS)- $554,786
• Texas Health and Human Services Commission-$282,450
• Rhode Island Office of Internal Audits (OIA)- $539,628

These two-year grants will fund projects that support the implementation of the SNAP Fraud Framework – a collection of procedures, innovative ideas, and best practices provided to state agencies in May 2018. FNS created the SNAP Fraud Framework to improve state efforts to detect, investigate, and prevent SNAP recipient fraud.