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- Employment and Training Programs Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Programs Authorized Under Section 6(d)(4) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)))
- a. General RequirementsThe State agency must prepare and submit an Employment and Training (E&T) Plan to its appropriate Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Regional Office. The E&T Plan must be available for public inspection at the State agency headquarters. A State agency may include its plan for the SNAP E&T program in a Combined Plan under WIOA but will require FNS approval prior to implementation and must continue to make a copy of the plan available for public inspection. If a State includes SNAP E&T in a Combined Plan under WIOA, the State agency will detail the following for each year covered by the Combined Plan:
- a. General Requirements
a. 7. The Method the State Agency Uses to Count All Work Registrants as of the First Day of the New Fiscal Year;
Current Narrative:
Unduplicated counts of work registrants who are on–going as of September 30th are calculated. Then all new registrants during the month of October are calculated. Both numbers are derived using case numbers or SSNs to ensure an unduplicated count. The sum of these two numbers is reported on Line 1 of the FNS–583 form.
All pertinent work registrant data is extracted from MAXIS monthly and transferred to DEED’s data base for SNAP E&T reporting purposes. This process allows DEED to analyze program performance as well as complete the FNS–583 form. The system is programmed to ensure participants are counted only once in a twelve month period using SSNs as identifiers.
The DHS/DEED Data Warehouse contains client level data from both systems for SNAP. This past summer 583 report programming was reconfigured and approved by FNS staff. It now includes all work registrants according to federal regulations and has increased Minnesota’s annual October count as well as monthly counts of work registrants. The updates continue to ensure that counts remain unduplicated.
The October count is achieved by accessing warehouse information on all SNAP recipients determined to be work registered at midnight on September 30th of each year. Each individual must be open on SNAP at the time the data is pulled.
Subsequent monthly counts of new work registrants uses data from the warehouse to determine which SNAP recipients have first opened their case in the past twelve months in the report month. This process ensures that only the openings occurring during the report period are captured. Programming prevents persons from being counted more than once in a federal fiscal year. This 7process was reviewed and approved by FNS staff this past summer.