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ResetResource | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2021-0074
    WIC Certification and Eligibility Resource and Best Practices Guide
        The WIC Certification and Eligibility Resource and Best Practices Guide  is a compilation of existing regulations and best practices that WIC state and local agencies may choose to use when determining eligibility for the program.  This simple, 10-page document walks WIC personnel through the certification process.
      07/20/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0094
    Publication of the 2020-2021 Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Income Eligibility Guidelines
        This policy memorandum transmits the 2020-2021 Income Eligibility Guidelines for the Senior Farmers’ Market National Program.
          SFMNP Policy Memo #2020-1
    05/26/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0079
    Clarifying Requirements for Compliance with Prisoner Verification System and Deceased Matching System Regulations
        The purpose of this memo is to reiterate the importance of state compliance with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program regulations, Prisoner Verification System and Deceased Matching System.
      09/24/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0045
    SFMNP Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
        This policy memorandum transmits the 2019-2020 Income Eligibility Guidelines for the Senior Farmers’ Market National Program.
          SFMNP 2019-1
    05/01/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0060
    SNAP - Issues with Certification Materials Submission Instructions
        This memo discusses SNAP applications and other documents being sent by clients to the USDA Office of Civil Rights instead of the appropriate state SNAP office. The memo outlines best practices states can use to make submission instructions clearer for clients.
      10/11/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0037
    State Agency Requirements for Required and Missing Verification for Regular Initial Applications
        FNS is issuing this policy memo in response to inquiries about how state agencies are required to inform households about required and missing verification and how this interacts with other Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) requirements, including whether a state may close a case on the 30th day following application.
      06/28/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2017-0016
    Cases of Severely Delayed Certification due to State Agency Fault
        This Food and Nutrition Service policy memo clarifies the process for calculating restored benefits in SNAP cases in which the application or recertification process of an eligible household has been delayed for more than one year due to state agency fault.
      04/10/2017
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2016-0055
    Verification of Certification
        This memorandum provides guidance for all state agencies administering WIC related to the issuance, acceptance, and confirmation of Verification of Certification when a WIC participant moves from one service delivery area to another, particularly in the case of participants that move from one state to another.
          WIC 2016-4
    08/11/2016
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2015-0039
    SNAP Recertification Interview Scheduling Memo
        This memorandum clarifies SNAP policy regarding recertification interview scheduling.
      07/31/2015
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2014-0038
    Revised Policy on Certification Periods for Zero Income Households
        This memorandum provides revised policy guidance on certification periods pertaining to zero income households in FDPIR. FNS Handbook 501 provides that households who report zero income month after month must be asked as to how they sustain themselves and other household members.
          FD-135
    05/13/2014

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