Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FNS SNAP FFIG 2024
The FY 2024 SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant is a discretionary grant program from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) designed to help SNAP State agencies strengthen how they prevent, detect, investigate, and resolve recipient fraud. The core idea is implementation: FNS wants States to put into practice the procedures, strategies, and operating model described in the SNAP Fraud Framework, with a focus on building durable program integrity capabilities rather than one-off activities. The grant supports improvements that can be embedded across the full lifecycle of participation in SNAP, starting at application and continuing through active participation and case resolution.
The opportunity is organized around several major framework objectives that collectively cover management, measurement, education, detection, investigation, analytics, and workforce development. Under Organizational Management, the grant emphasizes the basics that make anti-fraud work function in real settings: clear priorities, defined roles and responsibilities, staff organization, communication, governance, and the ability to manage both day-to-day operational workload and larger modernization efforts. This component reflects the view that strong program integrity depends on consistent leadership direction and workable internal processes, not only on investigative tools.
Performance Measurement is focused on helping agencies routinely capture, track, and analyze their own results so they can understand what is working and where resources are being wasted. In practice, this can include creating consistent metrics for referrals, investigation timeliness, outcomes, and error or fraud trends, and using those measures to guide staffing, training, and process changes. The intent is to move States toward continuous improvement, where data about operations is used to make decisions rather than relying on anecdote or irregular reporting.
Recipient Integrity Education supports targeted education intended to prevent fraud before it happens by ensuring recipients, applicants, and the broader public understand how to use SNAP benefits correctly and what constitutes fraud. A notable emphasis in the description is tone and approach: States are encouraged to prioritize clear education about rules and proper use of benefits, rather than focusing heavily on punitive messaging that might discourage eligible households from applying. This aligns the integrity goal with access goals by trying to reduce misuse through understanding and clarity.
Fraud Detection centers on proactive identification of potential fraud beginning at the application stage and continuing throughout the recipient's time on the program. This reflects a lifecycle approach where detection is not limited to post-payment investigations, but includes front-end screening, ongoing monitoring, and systematic approaches to identifying unusual patterns that may warrant review. The objective implies investment in processes and tools that can surface credible leads earlier, improving both deterrence and efficiency.
Investigations and Dispositions addresses what happens after a referral is made, aiming to improve end-to-end case management from intake through final outcome. This includes strengthening how referrals are prioritized, documented, investigated, and resolved, and ensuring dispositions are timely and consistent. The goal is to help States manage investigative workload more effectively, reduce bottlenecks, and improve the quality and consistency of outcomes while maintaining appropriate standards and due process.
Analytics and Data Management focuses on the people, processes, and technology needed to build and sustain an analytics capability that supports prevention, detection, and investigations. The framework treats analytics as an enabling function: better data management and analytic methods can help identify trends, flag anomalies, and target limited investigative resources where they are most likely to be productive. This objective implies work such as improving data quality, integrating or better using existing data sources, developing analytic models or queries, and establishing governance around how analytics is produced and acted upon.
Learning and Development is the workforce pillar, encouraging States to invest in training and professional development so staff stay engaged and can keep up with new fraud methods and emerging trends. This objective recognizes that fraud tactics evolve, staff turnover happens, and systems change; ongoing training helps ensure investigators, eligibility staff, analysts, and managers have consistent skills and shared understanding of procedures, tools, and expectations.
Eligibility is limited to SNAP "State agencies" as defined in 7 CFR 271.2, meaning the program is only open to the government entities that administer SNAP at the State level. There is a specific allowance for county-administered States: a county agency may apply, but only if the application includes a letter of commitment or endorsement from the relevant State SNAP agency. The county-administered States listed are California, Colorado, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin. FNS will consider only one application per State agency, so applicants within a State need to coordinate to avoid multiple submissions that would make them ineligible.
Key funding details from the posting include an award ceiling of $750,000, an expectation of 9 awards, and an application closing date of June 24, 2024. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 10.535 and is administered by USDA FNS, with the funding opportunity number USDA FNS SNAP FFIG 2024. Applicants are directed to read the full request for applications (RFA) for complete requirements, allowable costs, selection criteria, and submission instructions, since the notice summary is meant to describe the scope and intent rather than every compliance detail.Apply for USDA FNS SNAP FFIG 2024
- The Food and Nutrition Service in the agriculture, consumer protection, food and nutrition sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY 2024 SNAP Fraud Framework Implementation Grant" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.535.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-23.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-24. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 9 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, Others.
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