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Latest News for the Food Distribution Program
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Published: 141 days ago
" Sections of the TEFAP Handbook were revised for clarity and to reflect the most recent policy guidance. Most notably, Section 3 was updated to include the new requirement that all TEFAP sites must provide participants and applicants with a Written Notice of Beneficiary Rights.
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Sections of the TEFAP Handbook were revised for clarity and to reflect the most recent policy guidance. Significant revisions to content and guidance are noted under the section names below.
Section 2, Program Application
• Edit to clarify TX-UNPS is used for CE application and claim processing and not ordering.
• Edit to clarify that only new CEs need to sign a permanent agreement with TDA during the initial application process.
Section 3, Managing the Program
• Added that a Written Notice of Beneficiary Rights must be provided to all participants and applicants at all sites, the required elements of the Notice, the options for providing the Notice, and the requirement that CEs’ written application procedures must describe how the CE will provide the Notice to participants and applicants.
Section, 4 USDA Foods
• Edit to update references to FNS Instruction 709-5.
Section 5, Visits, Reviews, and Audits
• Edit to correct a broken link in a footnote for the item describing how to determine the value of USDA Foods for audit purposes.
Section 9, Terms, Definitions, and Acronyms
• Edit to remove unnecessary definition of additional contracting entity.
• Edit to remove reference to ordering in definition of TX-UNPS.
The TEFAP Handbook is located at If you downloaded and saved a copy of the TEFAP Handbook or any section(s) on your computer, delete and replace them with a downloaded copy of the revised section(s) or revised handbook in its entirety.
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