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ResetResource | 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 - 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 - Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents Percentage Exemption Totals for FY 22
        FNS has estimated the number of new discretionary exemptions each state has earned for FY 2022. States that operated under a statewide waiver of the ABAWD time limit did not earn any new exemptions.
      10/22/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0056
    SNAP - QC System Resumes Nationwide July 2021: Expectations, Special Review Procedures and Optional Face-to-Face Interview Waiver
        On April 30, 2021, FNS issued a memo that SNAP Quality Control will resume nationwide starting July 2021, with special QC review procedures related to COVID-related adjustments, and provides state agencies with a blanket waiver regarding the QC face-to-face interview.
      04/30/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0160
    SNAP Extension of Waiver of QC Face-to-Face Interview Requirement Due to the COVID-19 – Blanket Approval
        FNS will allow state agencies to suspend requirements to conduct face-to-face interviews for QC active reviews through Dec. 31, 2020.
      08/25/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0064
    Information from Third Party Payroll Sources
        This memorandum clarifies the use of third party payroll sources for SNAP certification policy and quality control purposes. The first two sections of this memorandum apply to certification policy and the section titled Quality Control Considerations provides details on how to treat verification from a third party payroll source for QC reviews.
      08/21/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2018-0005
    SNAP Quality Control Review Handbook - Clarification of Procedures Regarding the Transmission/Release of Case Finding
        This memorandum provides clarification of changes made to Section 1240 - Transmission/Release of Active Case Findings to FNS, Data Checking, and Changing Case Findings and Section 13 70 - Transmission of Negative Case Findings to FNS, Data Checking and Changing Case Findings in the October 2017 edition of the FNS Quality Control Review Handbook 310.
          QC Policy Memo 18-02
    01/31/2018
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0032
    Clarification on the three ways initial SNAP application processing timeliness is measured
        The memorandum that follows is intended to clarify the three ways in which FNS measures timeliness of initial SNAP application processing.  This memorandum does not represent new policy, but seeks to clarify the three existing data collection and monitoring procedures.
      06/02/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0103
    Quality Control Procedural Clarifications and Federal Access to State Systems
        In order to ensure efficient and effective program delivery, this memorandum clarifies existing statutory, regulatory and policy guidance regarding the documentation required for a QC case file, second party reviews, state quality control requests for policy interpretations, and requirements for federal access to state systems.
          SNAP 17-01
    12/30/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0043
    New Threshold for State Submittal of CAPER Corrective Action Center Drive Plans
        The SNAP quality control system measures the accuracy of State eligibility and benefit determinations. In fiscal year (FY) 2012, QC's measurement of errors in cases that were denied, terminated and suspended was renamed from the negative error rate to the case and procedural error rate. The name change was accompanied by a new review process that takes into account customer service aspects of negative actions, such as timeliness and correctness of the notice, in addition to the accuracy of the determination.
      07/12/2016

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