The Food and Nutrition Service is soliciting applications for its SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant Program.
Donor Name: Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/24/2024
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
The purpose of the SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant Program is to support State agency efforts to improve and expand recipient fraud prevention, detection, and investigation efforts using the procedures, ideas and practices outlined in the SNAP Fraud Framework. As a reminder, all State agencies have access to the Fraud Framework via PartnerWeb. Successful applications will specifically incorporate one or more of the procedures, ideas, and practices found in the SNAP Fraud Framework in their proposals. This grant opportunity is not intended to support retailer fraud-related projects. It is understood, however, that recipient fraud prevention efforts may necessarily involve collaborative work with SNAP authorized retailers or with FNS to address retailers complicit in committing fraud.
Objectives
- Organizational Management
- This objective aims to help States establish and communicate priorities, organize employees, and manage both large-scale and day-to-day processes. Many of the concepts described in this component are the foundation for successful program integrity initiatives.
- Performance Measurement
- This objective offers recommendations encouraging States to consistently capture and analyze their own performance.
- Recipient Integrity Education
- This objective provides targeted integrity education initiatives to help ensure recipients have the necessary information and tools to use SNAP benefits as intended—preventing fraud before it occurs. When producing recipient integrity education materials, States are encouraged to educate the public and applicants about SNAP fraud, rather than emphasize the consequences as a deterrent to applying.
- Fraud Detection
- Here, the SNAP Fraud Framework stresses the importance of proactively detecting fraud from the application process and continuing throughout the recipient’s time in the Program.
- Investigations and Dispositions
- This objective aims to provide states with tools and suggestions to improve fraud case management from initial fraud referral through disposition.
- Analytics and Data Management
- This objective details the necessary people, processes, and technology to launch and maintain an analytics capability. Data analytics can play a valuable role in preventing, detecting, and investigating SNAP fraud
- Learning and Development
- The final objective contains recommendations for States to invest in training and professional development opportunities to promote employee engagement and to ensure employees are aware of new and emerging trends in fraud.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $5,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $750,000
- Award Floor: $150,000
Project Period
August 30, 2024 – September 30, 2027
Eligibility Criteria
The following are eligible entities, which are described in more detail below:
- This grant opportunity is only open to State agencies that administer SNAP, consistent with the SNAP regulatory definition of “State agency” at 7 CFR 271.2.
- For State agencies that are county-administered, a county agency that submits an application must include a letter of commitment or letter of endorsement from the relevant SNAP agency with the application package to be considered for funding. States that are county-administered include: California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
- FNS will consider only one application per State agency.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
