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USDA-FNS-SNAP-EHIP-FY-2023: SNAP EHIP 2023

Closed Closed April 17, 2023 Opportunity USDA-FNS-SNAP-EHIP-FY-2023 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$25.0 million
• Award floor$5.0 million
• Total funding$25.0 million
• Expected awards3
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to state and local governments.

• State governments

**Eligible entities include the 53 State agencies who administer the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). State agencies in the process of EBT system re-procurement are eligible as long as the State agency can ensure the project can operate within the given timeline stated in the RFA. State agencies in the process of converting their EBT processer and that have finished building out the requirements at the time of applying will not be considered eligible applicants. Each eligible applicant may only submit one application in response to this grant solicitation.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past State Administrative Matching Grants for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program awards averaged $15.9 million; this notice allows up to $25.0 million per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), authorized under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, is the cornerstone of the Nation’s nutrition assistance safety net. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) certifies low-income Americans to participate in the program and authorizes and monitors retailers to accept SNAP benefits for eligible food products. Currently, around 40 million low-income Americans receive SNAP benefits, and more than 250,000 retailers are authorized to accept SNAP benefits. Section 1001 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, P.L. 117-2, (“ARPA”) authorized USDA $4,000,000,000 for Food Supply Chain and Agriculture Pandemic Response, including the ability to provide grants and other assistance to maintain and improve food and agricultural supply chain resiliency. The Department authorized $25,000,000, on a competitive basis, to enter into cooperative agreements with State agencies to carry out Electronic Healthy Incentive Projects (eHIP) under USDA’s Framework to Transform the Food System. FNS announces, through this Request for Applications, the availability of a maximum of $25,000,000 in total grant funding to award as many as three cooperative agreement grants. Eligible entities are the 53 State Agencies who administer SNAP benefits. This award is contingent upon the availability of funds. Awards are contingent upon funds having been apportioned internally and made available to FNS. FNS reserves the right to make more than one award, and to use this competition to award additional grants in this or the subsequent fiscal year should additional funding become available. In 2012, FNS tested a way of making fruits and vegetables more affordable for participants in SNAP through the Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP). Under HIP, SNAP participants received 30 cents for every SNAP dollar spent on qualifying fruits and vegetables at participating SNAP-authorized firms. The pilot’s incentive model integrated incentive delivery and redemption through the State’s Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) processor, which loaded the incentive directly onto the household’s EBT card (i.e., EBT integration). The final HIP evaluation presented positive findings on the impacts of financial incentives for fruit and vegetable consumption and as a result, FNS has witnessed a significant increase in healthy foods incentives offered to SNAP households.

Category: Agriculture, Food and Nutrition.

Applying now

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