The Food and Nutrition Service provides guidance on implementing
program policy to
State SNAP agencies through memos to its seven regional
offices. The regional offices distribute the guidance to the State agencies with which they
work. We also occasionally send letters on new policy initiatives directly to the welfare directors
in the States or to the governors of the States. Click here to link to the
Farm Bill 2008 related policies.
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2012 |
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-Able Bodied Adults
Without Dependents Waivers for Fiscal Year 2013 |
(3/21/12) |
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2010
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Online Application Review Results and Action Items |
(12/17/10) |
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Standard Utility Allowance (SUA) Annual Review and
Adjustment Waiver for Certain States - Modification and
Extension |
(12/02/10) |
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Extension of Standard Utility Allowance Waiver for Certain States |
(10/14/10) |
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SUA Biennial Adjustment
Option Blanket Waiver - 2010 |
(08/06/10) |
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Summary of Certification
Interview Policy Memo & Table |
(03/02/10) |
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Humanitarian parole Policy
for Certain Haitian Orphans |
(02/19/10) |
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SNAP -
Clarification - Issuance of Benefits When Household Is Ineligible in
the Initial Month of Application |
(01/21/10) |
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Handling Multiple
Applications Submitted by the Same Household |
(12/30/09) |
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2009 |
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SUA Biennial Adjustment
Option Blanket Waiver - 2009 |
(08/18/09) |
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SNAP -
Non-Land-Line Telephone Expenses Allowances and Deductions |
(07/14/09) |
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SNAP
- Returned Mail Under Simplified Reporting Systems and Request for
Contact Requirements |
(06/01/09) |
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SNAP -
Revised Quality Control (QC) Review Procedures for Guidance on
Extension for Afghani Special Immigrants |
(06/01/09) |
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SNAP -
Guidance on Extension for Afghani Special Immigrants |
(05/15/09) |
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Interim Reporting Requirements for Participants Subject to
Simplified Reporting - Clarification |
(04/13/09) |
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SNAP -
Changes in FNS Approval of Waivers of the Face-to-Face Interview
Requirement Without the Need to Document Hardship |
(02/13/09) |
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SNAP - Household's Review of Information in Automated Systems - (REVISED) |
(02/03/09) |
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2008 |
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SNAP - Waiver Requests to Eliminate the Interview Requirement Altogether |
(12/17/08) |
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SNAP - Interim Reporting Requirements for Participants Subject to Simplified Reporting |
(12/08/08) |
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SNAP - Extension for Afghani Special Immigrants |
(12/12/08) |
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Clarifying SNAP Reporting Requirements - "Known to the State agency |
(11/24/08) |
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Discrepant Name and Earnings Statement |
(11/13/08) |
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FSP – Guidance on Iraqi and Afghani Special Immigrants |
(03/20/08) |
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Rebates from the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 |
(03/04/08) |
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Final Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 Allocations of the 15 Percent Exemptions for Able- Bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWDS) – Adjusted for Carryover |
(02/27/08) |
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Policy Clarification: Deduction Language on Application and Reported Changes |
(02/25/08) |
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Guidance on Iraqi and Afghani Special Immigrants |
(01/24/08) |
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Servicepersons’ Bank Accounts |
(01/18/08) |
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The Notice of Missed Interview When a Household Has Not Submitted an Application for Recertification |
(01/18/08) |
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Extension of Food Stamp Income Exclusion - Deployment to a Combat Zone |
(01/18/08) |
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2007
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Face-to-Face Interview Waiver Criteria |
(08/24/07) |
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Fees for Collecting Child Support |
(08/22/07) |
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Terminating cases when a household does not spend their Food Stamps |
(08/22/07) |
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Deadline for Issuing a Notice of Adverse Action |
(03/27/07) |
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Extension of Food Stamp Income Exclusion - Deployment to a Combat Zone |
(01/01/07) |
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-- references a Jan. 14, 2005 Exclusion of Combat Pay letter. |
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Current Face-to-Face Interview Policy |
(01/24/07) |
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2006 |
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On-Line Food Stamp Program Applications |
(10/16/06) |
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Waivers of 7 CFR 273.10(f)(4) – Shortening Certification Periods |
(10/13/06) |
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Face-to-Face Interview Waiver Criteria |
(10/06/06) |
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Treatment of Gift Cards for Food Stamp Program Purposes |
(09/11/06) |
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Client Confidentiality and Group Interviews |
(09/01/06) |
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Separate Household Status for Disabled Persons |
(06/12/06) |
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Federally Subsidized Housing for the Elderly |
(03/14/06) |
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Drug Addiction and Alcoholic Treatment and Rehabilitation Programs |
(03/08/06) |
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Expedited Service and
Interviews |
(02/17/06) |
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Budgeting Drug Expenses
Under the New Medicare Drug Program (Part D) |
(01/06/06) |
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2005 |
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FY 2006 Allocations of the 15 Percent Exemptions for ABAWDS |
(12/21/05) |
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Adjusting Standard
Utility Allowances for the 2005-2006 Winter |
(12/09/05) |
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Food Stamp Eligibility
for Residents of Assisted Living Facilities with Meal
Options |
(11/07/05) |
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Treatment of Family
Subsistence Supplemental Allowance and National Flood
Insurance Program Payments in Income Eligibility
Determinations for Food and Nutrition Service Programs |
(10/29/05) |
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Policy Clarification: Deduction Language on Application and Reported Changes
Earlier memo: Rights and Responsibilities Language (Dec. 18, 1998) |
(10/17/05) |
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Budgeting Drug Expenses Under the Medicare Drug Discount Card and
the New Medicare Drug Program (Part D) on and after Jan. 1, 2006 |
(08/26/05) |
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Transitional Benefits Practices |
(08/01/05) |
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Maine
Waiver Homes |
(08/05/05) |
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Face-to-Face Interview Waiver Clarification |
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Consolidated Appropriations Act, PL 108-447, Food
Stamp Household Income Exclusion Provision - Combat Pay |
(01/14/05) |
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2004 |
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Treatment
of Certain Attendant Care Payments and Certain Child Care Payments |
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Revised
Policy Guidance - Medicare Prescription Drug Card |
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-- Memo on Updates
to Q&As on Prescription Drug Card
-- Further
Q&As
-- Additional Q&A
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(07/13/04)
(07/29/04)(08/05/04) |
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FY 2004 ABAWD Waiver Request Guidelines. |
(03/11/04) |
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Adjusted
FY 2004 15 Percent ABAWD Exemptions (issued (2/17/04) |
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FY
2004
Allocations of 15 Percent Exemptions for ABAWDs |
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2003 |
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Cooperation
With Fraud Investigations |
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Revised
Allocations of the FY 2003 15-Percent Exemptions |
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2002 |
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Improving Program
Access to Needy Families |
(04/16/02) |
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2001 |
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All Region Memo - Fleeing
Felons |
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Questions & Answers
on Categorical Eligibility and Vehicle Policies |
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Guidance on New DoD Subsistence
Allowance |
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Further Qs&As on the
NECP Final Rule (Covers Applications, Interviews, Verification, etc.) |
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Using TANF
Vehicle Policy |
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Guidance on Unearned
Income |
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2000 |
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Questions & Answers on
the Noncitizen Eligibility, and Certification Provisions Final Rule. (This file
covers 6-Month Reporting.) |
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Joint Guidance
on Citizenship, Immigration Status and Social Security Numbers (Tri-Agency Letter) |
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1999 |
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Expansion of Quarterly Reporting
Waivers |
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Universal Quarterly
Reporting |
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Letter to Regions (Modifying
the Status Reporting Waiver and Offering the Quarterly Reporting Waiver to all State Agencies) |
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Letter to Regions on
Categorical Eligibility |
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