Privacy Act of 1974: Computer Matching Program for the Disqualified Recipient SubsystemU.S. Department of Agriculture and State Welfare Agencies Administering the Food Stamp Program

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On June 16, 1993, (58 FR 33246) and again on November 29, 1993, (58 FR 62634), the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provided notice of its intent to conduct a computer matching program with all 50 States as well as the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. Not all of the States were fully prepared to participate in the computer matching program at its inception and only those 28 States that had executed computer matching agreements were included under the first notice. The second notice announced the participation of an additional 12 States. This third notice announces the participation of the remaining 13 States in the computer matching program. Included are the States of Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah. The matching program will enable State agencies to determine appropriate periods of disqualification from participation in the Food Stamp Program for intentional program violations. To assign appropriate periods of disqualification, State agencies will match data on individuals recently determined to have committed intentional program v