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General Program Requirements

Governors  on FS Eligibility On households leaving TANF.
Questions and Answers on Categorical Eligibility The FNS National Office sent this clarification to all FNS regional offices in October 1999.
TANF Diversion Payments: The FNS National Office sent the memorandum below to all FNS regional offices to clarify a point in a policy announced in June 1998.
Ensuring Food Stamp Nutrition Benefits During TANF Program Changes: Letter to State Welfare Commissioners dated January 29, 1999. 
FSP Memorandum - Diversion Payments. (Change in Policy). 
FSP Memorandum - Diversion Payments. (Further Guidance). 
Cumulative Q's and A's on Certification and Work Issues in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).  
Memo: Guidance for States on Use of Discretionary Food Stamp Program Time Limit Exemptions.  Size of Guidance: 237KB. Recommendation: print file in landscape.
Cumulative PRWORA Q's and A's on Food Stamp Fraud, Disqualifications, and Recipient Claims. 
Memo: Food Stamp Comparable Disqualifications. 
Letter to State Commissioners on Implementing Welfare Reform in the Food Stamp Program. Table of welfare reform provisions and implementation details attached. 
960813.HTM, Summary of Food Stamp Provisions Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Welfare Reform).

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