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a redefinition of the food stamp quality control (QC) system so that it takes into account
the rising number of earned income cases, legal immigrant cases, and similar cases whose
income levels cannot be precisely predicted and tracked;
broad recognition that state diversion programs should not adversely affect food stamp
benefits during a family's critical transition period from welfare to work; and
changes in the employment and training (E&T) program so that it again is a system that
assists the full range of food stamp recipients, rather than being focused on a rapidly
declining number of ABAWDs.
Specific recommendations follow:
State Proposals to Reform and Simplify Food Stamp Program Policies:
Specific Recommendations
1.
Simplification C ertain policy options exist in food stamps to allow a degree of
simplification, but they need substantial expansion. In recent years numerous new
deductions have been added; many new computer matches have been mandated;
immigrant benefit policy has changed frequently; earned income is far more frequent; and
many other changes and additional policy mandates have occurred. The Simplified Food
Stamp Program (SFSP) allows limited conformity with TANF, yet it must be
implemented in a strictly cost-neutral manner and prohibits any similar simplifications of
the balance of the food stamp caseload. These circumstances alone require significant
simplification, and are made all the more urgent by recently enacted reductions in future
administrative funding. In addition to this broad-based need for simplification, the
additional specific reforms below are needed at once.
2.
Welfare reform waivers A number of successful welfare reform waivers that
were approved well before the 1996 welfare reform law incorporate food stamp
provisions. FNS has imposed a strict year-by-year interpretation of the cost-neutrality
requirement for many of the these waivers, and has instructed a number of states to
terminate their waivers even in cases where the waiver program has only a year or two to
go. Successful waiver programs should be judged on their overall cost effectiveness and
other benefits, and in such cases the food stamp elements should be left intact.
3.
Quality Control (QC) T he food stamp QC system remains focused exclusively
on rigid compliance with detailed payment accuracy requirements that take no account of
the rapid movement of many clients into the workforce. In the present QC system, as
more households receive earned income, such incomewh i ch often fluctuates
unpredictablym a kes states' food stamp error rates go up. The QC system should treat
earned income cases in a manner that makes allowance for the nature of this income,
rather than effectively penalizing states' success in moving such households into the
Adopted by the American Public Human Services Association, National Council of State
Human Service Administrators
July
22,
1998
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