Policy Memo: Federal Waivers for Transition from Disaster SNAP to Normal Processing

Summary:

Due to the flooding in July 2010 the Department issued Disaster SNAP benefits from August 30, 2010 through September 3, 2010 in 7 counties.
Because so many people applied for the recent D-SNAP, some offices experienced a hardship in processing their regular work and customers had a hardship in reporting changes.
The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) granted DHS a waiver to extend the time that customers have to report changes; and to extend approval periods for certain cases. The waivers were granted to help offices return to normal processing.
The waivers described in this memorandum were approved for all of Cook, DuPage and Stephenson County FCRCs.
Category 08 and Category 94/96 SNAP cases in Cook, DuPage, and Stephenson, had their approval periods centrally extended for six months.
All SNAP units in Cook, DuPage, and Stephenson have 30 calendar days to report a change that occurred during the period 08/30/10 through 09/17/10.