Intended Audience: State/Provincial Government: Legislative Branch
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Build and Fund Staff Capacity in Your Government Agency to Integrate Benefits
This resource guide outlines one approach to integrating benefits: building the in-house capacity to champion and supervise benefits integration.
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Text to Connect: Using Text Message Outreach to Reduce SNAP Churn (Full Guide)
This guidebook aims to equip state and local agencies with the practical insights they need to develop a text messaging outreach program for SNAP recertification.
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Cross Training Government Staff and Community Assisters on Multiple Benefits
The examples in this guide describe how peer-to-peer training and updated interview scripts can help connect residents to the benefits they are eligible for.
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2025 Propel survey of EBT theft awareness and impact: State supplement
This report highlights growing concerns among SNAP recipients about electronic benefit theft and underscores the need for systemic protections.
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Coordinating SNAP and Nutrition Supports to Reduce Child Hunger; North Carolina: Meeting Families Where They Are
A case study on how North Carolina leveraged human-centered design, interagency collaboration, and data-sharing strategies to improve cross-enrollment in SNAP, WIC, and Medicaid, aiming to reduce administrative burden and better serve families.
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FNS Guidance for OBBBA of 2025
This webpage provides state agency resources and policy memos detailing how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) of 2025 affects SNAP implementation.
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OBBBA Medicaid Policy Timeline
This timeline outlines key Medicaid policy changes introduced by the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA / H.R. 1) with the greatest operational impact on state and territory agencies and highlights upcoming implementation deadlines.
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InnovateUS AI Resources
AI resources for public professionals on responsible AI use, including a course showcasing real-world applications of generative AI in public sector organizations.
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AI-Powered Rules as Code: Experiments with Public Benefits Policy
This report documents four experiments exploring if AI can be used to expedite the translation of SNAP and Medicaid policies into software code for implementation in public benefits eligibility and enrollment systems under a Rules as Code approach.
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Program Recertification Costs: Evidence from SNAP
This article analyzes the impact of interview assignment timing on the success of recertification and continued participation in SNAP.
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Hiring Question Bank for Digital Service Teams
A toolkit with interview questions for digital service teams hiring digital talent to leverage.
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Benefit Eligibility Rules as Code: Reducing the Gap Between Policy and Service Delivery for the Safety Net
This report examines how the U.S. federal government can enhance the efficiency and equity of benefit delivery by simplifying eligibility rules and using a Rules as Code approach for digital systems.