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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 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
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    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.
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    11/10/2022
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    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
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Updates to the FNS Handbook 310, SNAP Quality Control Review Handbook
        This memo transmits technical updates to appendices B through D of the FNS 310 Handbook currently issued through QC Policy Memo 22-02
          SNAP QC PM 22-03
    06/10/2022
    Resource | Policy Memos
    Updates to FNS Handbook 310, SNAP Quality Control Review Handbook
        This memo transmits the October 2021 FNS Handbook 310 through QC Policy Memo 22-02. The procedures in this handbook are effective beginning with the October 2021 sample month.
          QC Policy Memo: 22-02
    02/03/2022

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