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Resource | Guidance Documents Guidance for States on Use of Discretionary Food Stamp Program Time Limit Exemptions

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 stipulates that able-bodied, childless adults may only receive food stamps for 3 months in a 36-month period unless they work at least 20 hours a week; participate in an approved work or training program; or live in an area that has been waived from the time limit due to either an unemployment rate higher than 10 percent, or insufficient jobs.

08/14/1996
Resource | Policy Memos Limitations on Reimbursement for Meals Served in CACFP and SFSP

This memorandum addresses provisions which reduce the number of reimbursable meals that can be claimed by camps and migrant site in SFSP and child care centers in CACFP.

08/13/1996
Resource | Policy Memos WIC FMNP Recipient/Farmers Survey and FMNP Recipient Report

This is to provide you with clarification regarding the recipient/farmer surveys and the FNS-203, FMNP Recipient Report.

05/20/1996
Resource | Policy Memos CACFP Seriously Deficient Providers

This memorandum responds to regional requests at the Seattle meeting for clarification regarding States’ authority to maintain a list of seriously deficient day care home providers.

05/03/1996
Resource | Policy Memos Claims when Court Orders Individual to Perform Public Work

This policy memo supersedes the first question in Policy Memo 86-21. The change is being made to increase flexibility in reporting in this area.

04/30/1996
Resource | Policy Memos Farmer and Market Identifiers on FMNP Coupons

This is to provide you with clarification concerning the use of farmer and market identifiers on FMNP coupons. FMNP regulations require that each coupon be marked with a farmer identifier.

03/14/1996
Resource | Policy Memos Criteria for Sponsoring Organizations under the CACFP Exempt Organizations Handbook, Section 34 (14)

On Oct. 10, 1995, we transmitted questions to the IRS regarding concerns raised by state administrators of the CACFP at the September 1995  CACFP Initiative Task Force meeting. These concerns related to the recent revision to the criteria for granting tax exemption to sponsoring organizations of family day care homes from the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Handbook.  

02/06/1996
Resource | Policy Memos Non-Birth Mothers Certified as Breastfeeding Women

The purpose of this policy memorandum is to clarify that women who breastfeed infants that they did not give birth to ("nonbirth mothers"), may be certified to participate in the WIC program as breastfeeding women at state option.

10/04/1995
Resource | Policy Memos Registered Food Service Management Company Reports for the SFSP

As a follow-up to our December 1994 advisory memo to the regions which stated that this issue would be addressed in more detail in the future, this memo changes the existing FSMC reporting requirements policy to allow exception reporting by all state agencies.

09/26/1995
Resource | Policy Memos Coordination Initiative: WIC and Medicaid Programs that Utilize Managed Care Providers

PL 103-448 requires coordination between the WIC program and state Medicaid programs that use coordinated or managed care providers under contract or under waiver authority as permitted under the Social Security Act. 

06/22/1995
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