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USDA announces new SNAP retailer stocking standards, signs waivers with four states
Summary
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said USDA will publish a final rule raising SNAP retailer stocking requirements and signed waivers allowing Kansas, Nevada, Ohio and Wyoming to restrict certain purchases; officials framed the move as part of a broader push to implement the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced at a USDA event that the department will soon publish a final rule updating how SNAP defines and classifies food retailers and what they must stock to accept SNAP benefits, and she signed waivers with four states to restrict some purchases by SNAP recipients.
"To date, including an additional four today, we are now up to 22 states who have submitted and been approved for waivers under the SNAP program," Rollins said at the event. She said the rule will require retailers to stock "more than double the healthy options" currently required and cited "28 varieties across 4 staple food programs" as a starting point.
Rollins said the changes are intended both to promote healthier choices for program participants and to preserve program integrity. At the event she asserted that USDA reviews of program data had found "200,000 dead people" listed as receiving SNAP benefits…
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