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If your state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program calculates gross income based on a four-week month, ensure that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are calculated the same way.

Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) distribution sites can partner with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) outreach providers and anti-hunger advocates to help CSFP beneficiaries enroll in SNAP.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) can be tapped to help individuals and communities recover from natural or man-made disasters. Advocates can work with federal and state partners to get temporary Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP) benefits to households not already participating in SNAP, and replacement and supplemental SNAP benefits to current SNAP participants adversely affected by disaster.

Advocates and state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) agencies can improve access to SNAP for people with disabilities by disseminating accurate information about the program, opting for program practices that best serve people with disabilities, and partnering with people with disabilities and the organizations that support them.

Umbrella sponsors may be local government agencies, school districts, food banks, youth-serving organizations, and other private nonprofits. They fill a critical need by overseeing multiple, and often smaller, afterschool enrichment sites that need administrative support to participate in the Afterschool Meal Program.

Advocates can expand the Afterschool Meal Program and obtain federal reimbursement using proven outreach strategies, including promoting the program, building relationships with afterschool and out-of-school time provider networks, connecting sites to available community resources, and working closely with the state agency.

Pursuant to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) final rule, effective March 7, 2017, state agencies may use a telephone interview for SNAP applicants at initial application and recertification, unless the client requests a face-to-face interview.

Information on how states can use “categorical eligibility” (Cat El) rules to raise the gross income threshold for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). States may pursue broad-based Cat El through state SNAP agency or state legislative action.

Information on how states can dramatically increase participation in the School Breakfast Program through legislation that requires certain schools — typically high-poverty schools — to serve free breakfast in the classroom to everyone.

Information on how states can choose “categorical eligibility” (Cat El) rules to raise or eliminate the federal asset test in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). States may pursue broad-based Cat El through state SNAP agency or state legislative action.

Information on how state agencies and their community nonprofit and local government partners can receive matching federal funds to create and implement Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
outreach plans.

Information on helping working families receive a more adequate Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) monthly benefit by promoting full implementation of the uncapped dependent care deduction for child and adult dependents, including allowing for self-declaration of dependent care expenses.

Information on helping children 18 years of age and under who are residing in emergency shelters (e.g., homeless, runaway, or domestic violence) receive up to three free meals per day, year-round, through the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) shelter funds. This funding is also available to provide meals to adults with disabilities who reside in shelters where children receive free meals through CACFP.