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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 | Guidance Documents | FNS-GD-2019-0098
    FNS Handbook 501 for FDPIR
        The FNS Handbook 501 provides ITOs and state agencies guidance on the administration of FDPIR. The chapters within the handbook cover all aspects of the program including financial management, certification of households, food ordering, and inventory control.
      06/02/2022
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0088
    Transition from The Integrity Profile to the Food Delivery Portal
        In FY 2022, FNS is planning to replace The Integrity Profile with the new Food Delivery Portal as the system WIC state agencies use to report vendor management activities. This memorandum provides WIC state agencies information necessary to assess the resource levels needed to successfully transition to reporting required data in FDP and seeks state agency feedback on any anticipated funding needs.
          WIC Policy Memorandum #2021-9
    08/11/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos
    FY 2022 State Management Evaluation Target Areas
        FNS is targeting the areas of program operation listed, for state SNAP Agency Management Evaluations for the upcoming fiscal year. State SNAP agencies are required to conduct MEs for the target areas in the upcoming fiscal year.
      07/02/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2021-0036
    Data Requests from Infant Formula Manufacturers
        The purpose of this memorandum is to ensure that all stakeholders are aware of the federal regulatory requirements related to the disclosure of confidential WIC vendor and participant information.
          WIC Policy Memorandum #2021-6
    04/07/2021
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0104
    FY 2021 State Management Evaluation Target Areas
        FNS is targeting the areas of program operation listed, for state SNAP Agency Management Evaluations for the upcoming fiscal year. State SNAP agencies are required to conduct MEs for the target areas in the upcoming fiscal year.
      06/29/2020
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2020-0007
    Revised Guidance for Use of Vendor/Private Staff in Call Centers: 2020 Update
        Building on best practices to date and consistent with USDA’s efforts to improve customer service and increase state flexibility within the bounds of the law, while continuing to encourage states as laboratories of innovation, FNS is once again expanding allowable activities for states seeking to use vendor/private staff in call centers
      02/06/2020
    Resource | Guidance Documents
    Instruction 709-5: Shipment and Receipt of USDA Foods
        This instruction establishes the general standards and procedures that the state distributing agency, Indian Tribal Organization, or other consignee must follow in receiving shipments of USDA Foods, and conveys established responsibilities for other entities such as USDA Foods vendors and carriers.
          FNS Instruction 709-5
    03/13/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2019-0013
    USDA Foods Processing Program: Cancellation of Policy Memoranda
        In order to update and streamline policy guidance for the USDA Foods Processing Program, FNS is cancelling policy memoranda FD-009, FD-025, FD-130, FD-102, FD-030, FD-038, FD-048, FD-103, and FD-108. The guidance provided by these memoranda is outdated and has been superseded by the Final Rule: Revisions and Clarifications in Requirements for the Processing of Donated Foods, which was published on May 1, 2018.
          FD-145
    02/27/2019
    Resource | Policy Memos | FNS-GD-2018-0003
    Market Basket Analysis when Procuring Program Goods and Modifying Contracted-For Product Lists
        This memorandum provides guidance to state distributing agencies and recipient agencies on the use of market basket analysis in procuring processed end products for USDA Foods in Schools and commercial goods for the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Summer Food Service Program, and Child and Adult Care Food Program.
          FD-144, SP04 SFSP01 CACFP04-2018
    01/18/2018

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