Food Stamp Program: Miscellaneous Provisions of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991 and Earned Income Tax Credit Amendment

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This rule implements several legislative provisions from the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act Amendments of 1991, the Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act of 1993, and the Food Stamp Program Improvements Act of 1994. It finalizes provisions in a proposed rule published in the Federal Register on November 1, 1993. The provisions affect categorical eligibility of households receiving general assistance, monthly reporting and retrospective budgeting, and earned income tax credit resource exclusions. This rule also makes technical corrections to the Food Stamp Program regulations concerning waivers of retrospective budgeting requirements, self-employment income, verification, State agency action on reports and changes in reporting and budgeting status.