ACL 10-11: Elimination of Food Stamp Sanctions for Noncompliance with Substitute Program Work Requirements

Having been reminded yet again that it cannot make up “extra” rules for federal programs, the State directs the counties in through this ACL to discontinue the practice of imposing food stamp sanctions when a recipient fails to comply with work requirements of a substitute program (GA/GR and Refugee Resettlement Programs). No later than October 25, 2010, counties must stop imposing sanctions required in MPP §63-407.54 when the substitute program work requirements are not also the individual’s Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) mandatory assignment. [Download]