FNS Documents & Resources

Questions and answers on the certification issues in the 2008 Farm Bill. 

This memorandum sets forth the adjustments to be made by states operating Combined Application Projects.

Attached are questions and answers on issues related to the Employment and Training provisions of the Farm Bill.

Cost-of-Living adjustments to the SNAP allotments, deductions, income eligibility standards for the 48 states, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands.

On June 18, 2008, Congress enacted PL 110-246. Attached is an implementing memo describing the Food Stamp provision of The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008.

This is a follow up to our Nov. 8, 2007, memorandum to Food Stamp Program Directors concerning overuse of 15 percent Able Bodied Adults Without Dependents exemptions by state agencies.

This memo provides guidance to state agencies regarding large grant offset of overused ABAWD funds.

Attached is the fifth set of questions and answers in response to issues raised by states since the issuance of our four earlier sets of questions and answers, clarifying the certification provisions of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002.

At the request of the state agencies, SNAP offered a two-year ABAWD waiver under limited circumstances.

This memorandum addresses questions have been raised by WIC state agencies regarding the eligibility determinations for individuals from military families which include military service personnel serving overseas or assigned to a military base and temporarily absent from the home.