TO:	Local District Commissioners; TA Directors; FS Directors

FROM:	Patricia A. Stevens, Deputy Commissioner/pas
	Division of Temporary Assistance

SUBJECT:	 Follow-up to 04 ADM-2: Reminder to Districts that Have Not Submitted Modified TA Six-Month Waiver Requests

EFFECTIVE DATE:	Immediately

CONTACT PERSON:	 Central Team: Greg Nolan at (518) 474-9101

This is a follow-up to 04 ADM-2 (Changes in Food Stamp Program Change Reporting Rules).  Section C-2 on pages 3 and 4 of that ADM described procedures that districts must follow in order to retain previously granted Temporary Assistance waivers, that allowed districts to substitute a mail-in recertification form for one of the two mandated semi-annual face-to-face recertifications.  Only a limited number of districts that use six month mail-in recertifications have submitted modified mailers to this Office.  This is to remind districts that losing the authority to conduct mail-in recertifications will require these districts to conduct face-to-face recertifications for all TA cases every six months.

It also may result in loss of fair hearings and quality control errors, if any mail-in recertification forms are used without proper authority.  We urge any counties that have six-month TA mail-in recertification waivers that have not submitted a waiver modification, to do so as soon as possible. 

Further information may be obtained from 04 ADM-2.