This memorandum provides guidance to state agencies as they transition from COVID-19 nationwide waivers related to establishment of area eligibility in the child nutrition programs for summer 2022 and SY 2022-23.

FNS is releasing new guidance to assist states in the development of P-EBT plans for the summer of 2022.

This policy memorandum transmits the 2022-23 Income Eligibility Guidelines (IEGs) for SFMNP.

This policy memorandum transmits the 2022-2023 Income Eligibility Guidelines (IEGs) for WIC that were published in the Federal Register on March 29, 2022 at 87 FR 17977.

This memorandum and attached chart, Attachment A, provide 2022 caseload assignments for CSFP.

This memo transmits updates to the maximum size of WIC civil monetary penalties to reflect inflationary adjustments for 2022, as required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Improvements Act of 2015. 

These questions and answers provide guidance for recently published transitional standards for milk, whole grains and sodium.

As we enter tax filing season this year, I ask you to encourage all SNAP applicants and recipients to file taxes. Even if a family did not earn enough to be required to file taxes, they are eligible for the CTC and potentially thousands of additional dollars in benefits. Filing taxes will mean many families who are eligible for CTC will also get thousands of dollars in additional tax relief through the Earned Income Tax Credit.

FNS is committed to providing WIC participants with access to a variety of safe and healthy foods, including infant formula, and strongly encourages WIC state agencies to take expedient action to ensure that WIC participants can exchange recalled product on hand, and can use WIC benefits in their EBT balance or on paper WIC food instruments to purchase product that has not been recalled