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Olmsted County accepts $663,000 USDA SNAP modernization grant to build eligibility tools
Summary
The county board approved acceptance of $663,000 in federal SNAP PTIG funds to build bridging software and interview tools to transfer applications between state systems and support eligibility staff.
Olmsted County commissioners voted to accept a federal SNAP Program Technology Improvement Grant (PTIG) of $663,000 to fund software and tools designed to modernize eligibility processes for SNAP and related benefits.
Dan Jensen, associate director of Family Support and Assistance, told the board the grant will fund a bridging tool to move electronic applications from the state’s MNbenefits system into the state case management system (MAXIS) and an interview tool to guide staff through required interviews and automatically populate fields in MAXIS. "Right now ... our staff are literally taking an electronic application, rekeying that information into our state system," Jensen said, describing current manual reentry and error risk. He said the vendor Clarity Solutions will do the programming work and that the grant will cover 100% of programming costs.
Jensen characterized the technical work as one leg of a "three‑legged stool" for modernization: the state maintains and…
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