Food Stamp Program: Personal Responsibility Provisions of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 [loose] [2]

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Billing Code 3410-30-U DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Food and Nutrition Service 7 CFR Parts 272 and 273 RIN 0584-AC39 FOOD STAMP PROGRAM: Personal Responsibility Provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 AGENCY: Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. ACTION: Final Rule. SUMMARY: This rule finalizes the proposed rule of the same name which was published December 17, 1999. It implements 13 provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). Upon implementation, this rule will: prohibit an increase in food stamp benefits when a household's income is reduced because of either a penalty imposed under a Federal, State, or local means-tested public assistance program for failure to perform a required action or for an act of fraud; allow State agencies to disqualify an individual from participation in the Food Stamp Program (Program) if the individual is disqualified from another means-tested program for failure to perform an action required by that program; specify that State agencies may not apply a food stamp sanction to Program households for failure to ensure their minor children attend school, or if the adults do not have (or are 1