Located in:
- 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 Requirements [27]
The 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:
[27] 7 CFR § 273.7(c)(6)
- a. General Requirements [27]
a. 11. The organizational relationship between the units responsible for certification and the units operating the E&T components, including units of the Statewide workforce development system, if available. FNS is specifically concerned that the lines of communication be efficient and that noncompliance by the participant be reported to the certification unit within 10 working days after the noncompliance occurs;
Current Narrative:
The program is jointly administered by the Office of Program Policy and Community Grant Services (OPPCGS) and the Office of Field Operations (OFO). Within OPPCGS, the E&T unit is responsible for the contracting of E&T services, support, and monitoring of the contracted community providers and the SNAP Policy unit is responsible for establishing E&T policy. The OFO is responsible for SNAP certification. Communication between the providers and certification unit is achieved via Arkansas’s MIS SNAP Works in which providers enter participation data and tasks are created in ARIES (Arkansas Integrated Eligibility System). A Program Eligibility Specialist will then process the task to address any eligibility changes. ARIES will then issue the update to SNAP Works for the provider (if applicable).