""Pending any explicit direction to the contrary from Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors," a Saturday memo to state and regional directors instructed. Rather, it instructed states to "continue to process and load the partial issuance files" detailed in previous guidance. It described any disbursement of "full SNAP payment files" as "unauthorized.""
"Failure to halt or claw back full benefits could result in the cancellation of the federal share of state administrative costs, among other actions, the memo read."
States must not transmit full benefit issuance files to EBT processors pending explicit contrary direction from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). States must continue to process and load partial issuance files as detailed in prior guidance. Any disbursement of full SNAP payment files is unauthorized. Failure to halt transmission or to claw back full benefits could trigger consequences, including cancellation of the federal share of state administrative costs. Additional unspecified actions could also be taken against states that do not comply. The directive applies to state and regional directors overseeing SNAP benefit issuance processes.
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