Cap tefap admin grts to STS

The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service awarded the South Carolina Department of Agriculture $1,339,698 under the Emergency Food Assistance Program (Administrative Costs) formula grant on October 1, 2025, for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026.

The funding supports administrative costs for the storage and distribution of TEFAP commodities to low-income persons in South Carolina. Under the formula allocation methodology mandated by Congress, this award reflects South Carolina's relative share of the national poverty (60 percent weighting) and unemployment (40 percent weighting) populations. The South Carolina Department of Agriculture, designated as the distributing agency, must make available at least 40 percent of the grant to emergency feeding organizations or expend such funds on their behalf. Funds are provided through electronic transfer as needed for actual fiscal-year expenditures; any unobligated amounts are returned to the federal government and reallocated under the statutory formula.