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Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Direct Certification with Medicaid

FNS is conducting additional demonstration projects to expand the evaluation of direct certification with Medicaid for both free and reduced price meal eligibility in NSLP and SBP.

11/09/2023
Resource | FAQs/Q&As SNAP Electronic Healthy Incentives Project (eHIP) Q&As

Questions and answers regarding the SNAP eHIP cooperative agreement project.

03/24/2023
Resource | Webinars/Videos SNAP Electronic Health Incentives Project (eHIP) Webinar

Webinar on the SNAP eHIP cooperative agreement project presented in February 2023

03/24/2023
Resource | Report | Promoting Healthy Eating Evaluation of the FY 2020 Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives Project

This report presents findings from the evaluation of the first Healthy Fluid Milk Incentives project. The project tested take-up of incentives delivered through coupons issued to SNAP participants when they purchased "qualifying fluid milk" with their SNAP benefits at four pilot stores in west Texas.

03/16/2023
Resource | Infographics SNAP Healthy Incentives Infographic

SNAP healthy incentive programs encourage healthy eating by making nutritious food more accessible and affordable through coupons, discounts, gift cards, bonus items, or extra funds.

01/19/2023
Resource | Technical Assistance Attracting SNAP Customers to Your Farmers' Market

This information s for market managers to help them attract SNAP customers to their markets.

01/17/2023
Resource | Technical Assistance & Guidance USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23

Letter to states from the USDA Secretary to encourage you to help schools in your state keep kids fed despite ongoing challenges associated with the pandemic, ongoing supply chain issues, and labor shortages.

09/02/2022
Resource | Webinars/Videos SNAP at Farmers Markets: Incentives

 This webinar will focus on what markets and their partners need to know about incentives, different types of incentives they could offer, and what they would need to do to introduce an Incentive program at their market.

04/05/2019
Resource | Webinars/Videos SNAP at Farmers Markets: Advertising and Marketing

This webinar will focus on strategies for ways to advertise and market farmers markets to SNAP clients.

04/05/2019
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0049 2018 Direct Certification Improvement Grant RFA

The fiscal year 2018 Direct Certification Improvement Grant Request for Applications are available to state agencies that administer the National School Lunch and the School Breakfast programs to fund the costs of improving your direct certification rates with SNAP, and other needs-based assistance programs.

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08/15/2017
Page updated: October 14, 2021