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Eligibility

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EBT

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Governments

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• Legislation, Rules, Waivers and Certification Policy
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• Reducing Fraud and Non-Fraud Eligibility Errors
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• Cost of Living Adjustments Fiscal Year 2002
• Food Stamp Program Income Eligibility Standards October 1
• Integrity and Fraud

Nutrition Education

• Food Stamp Program Nutrition Education

Outreach

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• Food Stamp Information Materials
• 2002 Competitive Research Grants (list)
• 2002 Competitive Research Grants (description)
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Quality Control

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Certification Policy

• Certification Policy (Guidance on Recipient Eligibility)

Public Advocacy

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Researchers

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Retailers

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• Eligible Food Items
• Contact Information

Rules

• Legislation, Rules & Waivers
• Food Stamp Special Rules for the Elderly or Disabled
• Policy Guidance on Recipient Eligibility

Legislation

• Food Stamp Legislation
• 2002 Farm Bill
  
  2002 Farm Bill

• Guidance on Non-Citizen Eligibility
• Questions and Answers on the Performance Measures for the High Performance Bonuses Memo
• Questions and Answers: Food Stamp Program High Performance Bonuses Performance Measures
• 2002 Farm Bill Resource Issues
• Cover Memo for Regions To Use To Forward Guidance to State Directors
• Guidance for State Agencies in Implementing Immigrant Provisions
• Performance Measures
• FY 2002 $20 Million ABAWD E&T Allocation
• FY 2002 E&T Allocations to "Pledge" States
• Fiscal Year 2003 Federal Employment and Training Program Grants
• Farm Bill Commissioners Letter
• Food Stamp Provisions of the Farm Bill
• Commissioners

Regulations

• Food Stamp Regulations

Waivers

• Waivers of Rules

Memos

1996
• Letter to State Commissioners on Implementing Welfare Reform in the Food Stamp Program
  
  1998
• Budget and Finance
  
  1999
• Universal Quarterly Reporting Waivers
• Quarterly Reporting Clarification and Expansion of Waivers
  
  2000
• Census Demonstration
• Commisioner's Letter Attachment
• Military Subsistence Allowance
• Joint Guidance on Citizenship, Immigration Status and Social Security Numbers
• Q and A on the Noncitizen Eligibility and Certification Provisions Final Rule
• Policy Guidance Regarding Inquiries Into Citizenship
• FSSA for Certain Members of the Armed Forces
  
  2001
• Update on DoD Subsistence Supplemental Allowance for Members of the Armed Forces
• Fleeing Felons
• Fiscal Year 2001 Allocations of the 15 Percent Exemptions Adjusted for FY 2000 Carryover
• Data Table, FY 2000 Allocations of the 15 Percent Exemptions Adjusted for FY 1999 Carryover
• Q and A on the Final Rule on Noncitizen, Eligibility and Certification Provisions of PRWORA
• Treatment of Unearned Income from Private Sources
  
  2002
• FY 2003 E&T Allocation Table
• Revised FY 2002 E&T Allocations Table
• Under Secretary's Memo to State Commissioners on Options
• Improving Program Access to Working Families
• Retirement (Pension) Plans
• Sample - Important Notice to Applicants

PRWORA

• Cumulative Questions and Answers on Certification and Work Issues in PRWORA
• Welfare Reform
  
  1999
• General PRWORA
• Section 103 - Block Grants to States
• Section 115 - Denial of Assistance and Benefits for Certain Drug-related Convictions
• Section 402 - Limited Eligibility of Qualified Aliens for Certain Federal Programs
• Section 421 and 423
• Section 801 - Definition of Certification Period
• Section 803 - Treatment of Children Living at Home
• Section 805 - Definition of Homeless Individual
• Section 806 - State Option for Eligibility Standards
• Section 807 - Earnings of Students
• Section 808 - Energy Assistance
• Section 809 - Deductions from Income
• Section 811 - Vendor Payments for Transitional Housing Counted as Income
• Section 812 - Simplified Calculation of Income for the Self-employed
• Section 813 - Doubled Penalties for Violating Food Stamp Program Requirements
• Section 814 - Disqualification of Convicted Individuals
• Section 815 - Disqualification
• Section 816 - Caretaker Exemption
• Section 817 - Employment and Training
• Section 819 - Comparable Treatment for Disqualification
• Section 820 - Disqualification for Receipt of Multiple Food Stamp Benefits
• Section 821 - Disqualification of Fleeing Felons
• Section 822 - Cooperation with Child Support Agencies
• Section 823 - Disqualification Relating to Child Support Arrears
• Section 824 - Work Requirement (ABAWD)
• Section 827 - Benefits on Recertification
• Section 829 - Failure to Comply with Other Means-tested Public Assistance Programs
• Section 830 - Allotments for Households Residing in Centers
• Section 835 - Operation of Food Stamp Offices
• Section 849 - Work Supplementation or Support Program
• Section 850 - Waiver Authority
• Section 851 - Response to Waivers
• Section 852 - Employment Initiatives Program
• Section 854 - Simplified Food Stamp Program
• Section 911 - Fraud Under Means-tested Welfare and Public Assistance Programs
  
  2002
• State-Funded Food Programs for Legal Immigrants

Public Charge

1999
• Letter to Commissioners of CNP State Agencies
• FDD Letters
• Letter Welfare Commissioners in All States
• Fact Sheet on Public Charge
• Nutrition Benefits and Public Charge: Effect on Immigration Status
• Nutrition Benefits and Public Charge: Effect on Immigration Status (Part 1)
• Nutrition Benefits and Public Charge: Effect on Immigration Status (Part 2)
• Nutrition Benefits and Public Charge: Effect on Immigration Status (part3)
• Nutrition Benefits and Public Charge: Effect on Immigration Status
• U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service/Q and A
• Q and A: Definition of Public Charge/Q and A
• State Department's Cable on Public Charge
• White House Press Release 1999
• Al Gore Press Release Reference Public Charge
• Letter to State Health Commissions

Support

• General Program Requirements
• Immigrants
• Work Requirements
  
  1996
• Guidance for States on Use of Discretionary Food Stamp Program Time Limit Exemptions
• Summary of Food Stamp Provisions Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
• Letter to State Commissioners on Changes to Immigrants' Food Stamp Certification Requirements
• Guidance to State Welfare Commissioners
• Memorandum Clarifying Immigrants' Eligibility for Food Stamps
• Sample Letter for Welfare Commissioners
• Guidance for States Seeking Waivers for Food Stamp Limits
• Transmittal Letter on Guidance on Time Limited Food Stamp Benefits
• Letter to State Commissioners on Implementing Welfare Reform in the Food Stamp Program
  
  1997
• Waivers of Work Requirement Time Limits Based on Insufficient Jobs
• Guidance on State Option Food Stamp Programs
• Memo - Guidance on State Option Food Stamp Programs
• Immigrant Eligibility - Implementation of Interpretation of the Qualifying Quarters of Work Provision of Pub. Law 104-193
• Implementation of Provisions of Balanced Budget Act of 1997 - Exemptions for ABAWDs
• Passage of Murray/Gorton Amendment
• Immigrant Eligibility - Verification of Work History, June 23, 1997
• Use of Quarters of Coverage History System (QCHS)
• Immigrant Eligibility - Guidelines for Making Determination Based on Work History
• Further Questions Answers on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
• Food Stamp Comparable Disqualifications
• Revised Food Stamp Program Guidance for Self-Initiated Workfare Programs
• Work Supplementation or Support Guidance Questions and Answers
  
  1998
• Guidance for States on Use of Discretionary Food Stamp Program Time Limit Exemptions
• Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (w/3-month Time Limits)
• Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (w/6-month Time Limit on the Exemptions)
• Implementing Alien Provisions Agriculture Research Act 1998
• Implementation of Balanced Budget Act of 1997
• Q's and A's on E&T Allocation and Work Provisions for ABAWDS
• Cumulative Questions and Answers on Certification and Work Issues in PRWORA
• Memo Diversion Payments - June 16, 1998
• Public Assistance Diversion Payments - Further Guidance
• Exemptions for ABAWDS
• Further Questions and Answers on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997
• Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (if no Time Limit is Placed on the Exemptions)
• Cumulative PRWORA Q's and A's on Food Stamp Fraud, Disqualifications, and Recipient Claims
• Balanced Budget Act of 1977 (PUB. l. 105-33) Questions and Answers - Set 2
  
  1999
• Letter to Regions on Categorical Eligibility
• Letter to Regions Modifying Status Reporting and Offering Quarterly Reporting to All States
• Fifteen Percent Allocations - Adjusted
• FY 1999 15 Percent Exemptions Including FY 1998 Carryover
• Questions and Answers on Categorical Eligibility
• Letter to State Welfare Commissioners on Ensuring Food Stamp Nutrition Benefits During TANF Program Changes
• FY 1999 Food Stamp Program ABAWD Discretionary Exemptions
• TANF Diversion Payments
  
  2000
• Commissioners Letter on COLAs 7/00
• Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (3 Month Time Limit on Exemptions)
• Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (6 Month Time Limit on Exemptions)
• FY 2000 Allocations of 15 Percent Exemption for ABAWDS
• Allowable per Case-Month Exemptions by State (If no Time Limit is Placed on the Exemptions)
• FY 2000 Food Stamp Program ABAWD Discretionary Exemptions
• Maximum Allotment Amounts1 - October 1998 as Adjusted
• Letters to Governors Food Stamp Recipients Leaving TANF
• Food Stamp Program Income Eligibility Standards
• Food Stamp Program Monthly Allotments and Deductions
• Commissioners All States
• State Vehicle Policy for TANF
  
  2001
• Food Stamp Program Maximum Monthly Allotments1
• New York City Disaster Food Stamp Program In Response to the World Trade Center Disaster
• Questions and Answers On Categorical Eligibility and Vehicles
• Vehicle Questions and Answers
• Categorical Eligibility Questions and Answers and Changes in Policy
• State TANF/MOE Programs that Confer Categorical Eligibility
• Vehicle Questionnaire
• TANF Vehicle Rules
  
  2002
• Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs)
• Food Stamp Program Maximum Monthly Allotments1
• State Commissioners Letter-Guidance Work Supplementation
• Guidance for Work Supplementation or Support Programs
• Food Stamp Policy on Immigrants
• Food Stamp Program Standard Utility Allowances (SUA)
• Heating and Cooling SUAs
  
  2003
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 Allocations of the 15 Percent Exemptions for Able-Bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWDs)
• Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) Waiver Requests
  
  2004
• Fiscal Year (FY) 2004 Allocations of the 15 Percent Exemptions for Able-Bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWDs)