FY 2024 SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-FNS-SNAP-FFIG-2024
- Agency
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Food and Nutrition Service
Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- $150,000 to $750,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Categories
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- Agriculture
- Consumer Protection
- Food and Nutrition
- Eligible applicants
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- State Governments
- Other
- County Governments
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The FY 2024 SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant is a federal funding opportunity issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The purpose of the grant is to support state agency efforts to improve and expand recipient fraud prevention, detection, and investigation activities for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The grant program aligns with the objectives outlined in the SNAP Fraud Framework, which include strengthening organizational management, performance measurement, recipient integrity education, fraud detection, investigations, analytics, and employee training. Applicants must be state governments, county governments, or other eligible entities. Proposals will be evaluated based on alignment with the SNAP Fraud Framework objectives, feasibility, and the applicant's capacity to manage the grant funds. The application deadline is June 24, 2024.
Up to $5 million in total funding is available, with individual awards capped at $750,000. This is a multi-year grant program, with anticipated project periods of two to three years. The grants will support state-level initiatives to enhance SNAP fraud prevention, detection, and investigation capabilities through enhanced verification processes, data analytics, training, and recipient education efforts.
Synopsis
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.
- 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.
Please read the entire request for applications (RFA) for additional information.
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