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Resource | Federal Register Documents Provisions to Improve the SNAP Quality Control System

USDA is issuing this notice of proposed rulemaking to improve SNAP's quality control system as required in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. 

09/19/2023
Resource | Federal Register Documents SNAP: Non-Discretionary Quality Control Provisions of Title IV of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018

USDA is adopting the interim final rule on non-discretionary quality control provisions of Title IV of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, and its correction, as final.

04/18/2023
Resource | Policy Memos FD-152: Discontinuance of the High Security Seal Requirement for USDA Foods Deliveries

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will discontinue the requirement for vendors to use high security seals to secure USDA Foods deliveries as of July 1, 2023. 

04/05/2023
Resource | Policy Memos SNAP Extension of Waiver of QC Face-to-Face Interview Requirement – October 2023 – September 2024

This memorandum extends the Quality Control face-to-face interview waiver through Sept. 30, 2024. This waiver allows state agencies to suspend requirements to conduct face-to-face interviews for active QC case reviews.

02/10/2023
Resource | Policy Memos SNAP QC Review Clarification for Cases with Back-to-Back Certification Extensions in 2020 or 2021

FNS determined there are Quality Control cases in the Fiscal Year 2022 active frame with back-to-back certification period extensions that have been treated inconsistently by QC reviewers. This memo is intended to clarify the QC procedures for cases that were impacted by these extensions.

QC PM 23-03
12/08/2022
Resource | Policy Memos Federal Access to State Systems for Quality Control Purposes

The purpose of this memorandum is to clarify how federal access to state systems will be monitored by FNS.

QC PM 23-02
11/10/2022
Resource | Policy Memos Updates to the SNAP Quality Control Review Handbook
QC PM 23-01
10/21/2022
Resource | Policy Memos SNAP - Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents Percentage Exemption Totals for FY 23 - Not Adjusted for Carryover

FNS has estimated the number of new discretionary exemptions each state has earned for FY 2023. States that operated under a statewide waiver of the ABAWD time limit did not earn any new exemptions.

09/28/2022
Resource | Policy Memos SNAP Quality Control Error Tolerance Threshold for FY 2023

The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, requires the SNAP QC system use a tolerance level to set a monetary threshold for determining which QC errors are included in the calculation of payment error rates.

QC PM 22-05
09/07/2022
Resource | Policy Memos Clarifying use of certain coding on the FNS 380-1, The QC Review Schedule, and the End of the Annual Review Period

This memorandum clarifies existing policy to ensure the data collected through SNAP’s QC system produces reliable program information.

SNAP QC PM 22-04
09/02/2022
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