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      National and State Level Estimates of WIC Eligibility and Program Reach in 2021
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    Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Report to Congress: State Implementation Progress, SY 2014-15
        This report responds to the requirement of PL 110-246 to assess the effectiveness of state and local efforts to directly certify children for free school meals. Direct certification is a process conducted by the states and by local educational agencies to certify eligible children for free meals without the need for household applications.
      12/02/2016
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    Second Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study (APEC II): Estimating and Validating Statistical Models for Updating Estimates of Improper Payments in NSLP and SBP
        Statistical models were designed to estimate national improper payments due to certification error on an annual basis using district-level data. This enables FNS to update its estimates of national improper payment rates for the NSLP and SBP in future years without having to conduct full rounds of primary data collection.
      11/29/2016
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    SNAP E&T Pilot Projects FY 2016 Report to Congress
        The SNAP E&T pilot projects give Congress, USDA, and states the opportunity to test innovative strategies and approaches that connect low-income households to good paying jobs and thereby reduce their reliance on public assistance.
      11/23/2016
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    SNAP Employment and Training Best Practices Study: Final Report
        This study — mandated by Section 4022 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 — reviews research on employment and training program components and practices that: (1) assist members of households participating in SNAP to obtain regular employment; and (2) are best integrated with state workforce development systems.
      11/22/2016
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    Foods Typically Purchased by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Households
        This study uses calendar year 2011 point-of-sale transaction data from a leading grocery retailer to examine the food choices of SNAP and non-SNAP households . On average, each month's transaction data contained over 1 billion records of food items bought by 26.5 million households in 127 million unique transactions.
      11/18/2016
    Resource | Research | Assessing/Improving Operations
    Feasibility Study of Capturing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Purchases at the Point of Sale
        This study examined the feasibility of creating a data collection system capable of directly and automatically providing USDA with item-level data on purchases made by SNAP households. Data would be captured at the point of sale from purchases made using EBT cards.
      11/18/2016
    Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics
    Characteristics of SNAP Households: FY 2015
        This report is the most recent in a series of annual reports providing information about the demographic and economic circumstances of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program households. In fiscal year 2015, as in prior years, nearly two-thirds of SNAP participants were children (44 percent), elderly (11 percent) or disabled nonelderly adults (10 percent). The average monthly benefit received by SNAP households was $254.
      11/14/2016
    Resource | Research | Assessing/Improving Operations
    Special Nutrition Program Operations Study, SY 2013-14
        The Special Nutrition Program Operations Study is a multiyear study designed to provide the Food and Nutrition Service with a snapshot of current state and school food authority policies and practices of the school meal programs, including information on school meal standards, competitive foods standards, professional standards, school lunch pricing and accounting, and Smarter Lunchrooms activities.
      10/31/2016
    Resource | Research | Assessing/Improving Operations
    School Nutrition Program Operations Study - SY 2012-13
        The information in this second year report (school year 2012-13), the first year new lunch standards were implemented, will provide data for observing the improvements resulting from the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Data was collected from a survey of all state child nutrition directors and a nationally representative sample of school food authorities.
      10/31/2016
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    Examining the Potential to Expand Data Matching in the School Meal Program Eligibility and Verification Processes
        This White Paper examines whether any additional means-tested programs might be feasible for use in the direct certification of school-age children participating in school meals or for verification of household income on meal applications.
      10/24/2016

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