Certification Policy (Guidance on Recipient Eligibility)

The Food and Nutrition Service provides guidance on implementing Food Stamp Program policy to State food stamp agencies through memos to its seven regional offices. The regional offices distribute the guidance to the State agencies with which they work. We also occasionally send letters on new policy initiatives directly to the welfare directors in the States or to the governors of the States.

	Guidance on Direct Certification in School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs for School-Age Food Stamp Recipients
	State Option Report  September 2004
	Treatment of Certain Attendant Care Payments and Certain Child Care Payments
	Revised Policy Guidance - Medicare Prescription Drug Card
	-- Memo on Updates to Q&As on Prescription Drug Card   (7/13/04)  -- Further Q&As (7/29/04)  -- Additional Q&A (8/05/04)
	FY 2004 ABAWD Waiver Request Guidelines.  Memorandum issued March 11. 2004.
	Adjusted FY 2004 15 Percent ABAWD Exemptions (issued (2/17/04)
	FY 2004 Allocations of 15 Percent Exemptions for ABAWDs
	State Options Report -- Third Edition (A table of allowed options States selected)
	Cooperation With Fraud Investigations
	Revised Allocations of the FY 2003 15-Percent Exemptions
	Change Reporting Systems and Waivers Summary
	2002 Farm Bill Information
	Improving Program Access to Needy Families, 16 April 2002
	All Region Memo - Fleeing Felons
	Questions & Answers on Categorical Eligibility and Vehicle Policies
	Guidance on New DoD Subsistence Allowance
	Policy resulting from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996  (PRWORA)
	Questions & Answers on the Noncitizen Eligibility, and Certification Provisions Final Rule. (This file covers 6-Month Reporting.)
	Further Qs&As on the NECP Final Rule (Covers Applications, Interviews, Verification, etc.)
	Joint Guidance on Citizenship, Immigration Status and Social Security Numbers  (Tri-Agency Letter)
	Using TANF Vehicle Policy
	Guidance on Unearned Income
	Expansion of Quarterly Reporting Waivers
	Universal Quarterly Reporting
	Improving Food Stamp Program Access: State Best Practices
	Governors Letter (on Recipients Leaving TANF)
	Letter to Regions  (Modifying the Status Reporting Waiver and Offering the Quarterly Reporting Waiver to all State Agencies)
	Letter to Regions on Categorical Eligibility
	Regional Office Addresses
	Access Guides: The Nutrition Safety Net: At Work for Families; The Nutrition Safety Net: Help for the Elderly and Disabled

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