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Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2012-0049 Letter to Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook Inc.

Sale or offer to sell SNAP benefits on Facebook.

08/09/2012
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2012-0047 Letter to Mr. Buckmaster, CEO, Craiglist

This letter is to follow-up on our earlier correspondence, dated Aug. 17, 2011, in which we requested that Craigslist post a notice regarding the illegality of selling SNAP benefits on its website and/or that SNAP benefits be added to its prohibited items list.

08/09/2012
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2012-0023 Letter to Mr. Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter Inc.

Request for assistance on the sale or offer to sell of SNAP benefits in public and online.

04/09/2012
Resource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2012-0048 Letter to Mr. John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc.

This letter is to follow-up on conversations the USDA Office of General Counsel had with your legal team in 2010, in which we requested that eBay post a notice regarding the illegality of selling SNAP benefits on its website and/or that SNAP benefits be added to its prohibited items list.

04/09/2012
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2011-0069 Letters to Governors

Strengthening SNAP integrity, rooting out waste, fraud and abuse so that federal dollars are used appropriately.

11/15/2011
Resource | Fact Sheets USDA Takes Aggressive Action to Fight Trafficking

The sale or exchange of SNAP benefits for anything other than food sold by an authorized retailer is illegal – and is neither accepted nor tolerated by USDA.

06/23/2011
Resource | Report Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 Clarification on Section 241: Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program

Attached are questions and answers in response to issues raised by states, through various discussions, concerning Section 241 of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010

05/14/2011
Resource | Fact Sheets History of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Time line of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

01/26/2010
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2008-0058 Clarification of Farm Bill Certification Provisions of SNAP - Questions and Answers #3

Attached are additional questions and answers in response to issues raised by state agencies on SNAP certification and eligibility provisions of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008.

11/20/2008
Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2008-0048 Q&As on Certification Issues from the 2008 Farm Bill #2

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

08/29/2008
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