Tefap farm bill

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded Administracion De Desarrollo Socioeconomico De La Familia $222,401 on June 9, 2026, under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant (CFDA 10.568). The award funds storage and distribution costs for USDA Foods distributed through the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) in Puerto Rico, with performance through June 8, 2027.

As Puerto Rico's territorial welfare and social services agency, the recipient administers federal food assistance programs and passes through funding to local organizations. The TEFAP program allocates administrative funds among state agencies using a legislatively mandated formula based on each state's proportional share of persons with income below the poverty level (60 percent weight) and unemployed persons (40 percent weight). A minimum of 40 percent of TEFAP administrative funds must be made available to emergency feeding organizations—including food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens—or expended on their behalf. The recipient maintains three-year record retention for receipts and dispersals and tracks beneficiary eligibility, processes applications and eligibility determinations, manages benefit distributions via EBT card infrastructure, and oversees commodity storage and distribution logistics.