The agency is now looking for ways to offset those losses, Thompson said, but working around those various losses will be an uphill battle. “We anticipate difficulties getting caught up.” Losing 3,000 hours of productivity at the same time as we’re losing 5 percent of our productivity due to furloughs is going to create some additional administrative strain,” Thompson said. Instead, DWSS tracks productivity by looking at the number of tasks completed per worker, a more efficient and cost effective method. The loss in overtime will translate to a reduction of about 3,000 to 4,000 hours of productivity a week among the agency’s roughly 900 case task staff, leading to the possibility of even longer delays for families seeking SNAP assistance.Īdditionally the agency is also anticipating a five percent decrease in productivity due to upcoming furloughs prompted by state budget cuts, equivalent to the loss of 46 case managers.Īs a legacy of changes implemented during the Great Recession, DWSS does not use a traditional caseload/case management model where workers are assigned a specific number of cases determined by a prescribed ratio. 31 and was not renewed in the latest stimulus package passed by Congress. While the CARES Act provided state and local funding that could be used to pay overtime for state employees, that funding expired on Dec. More challenges are headed for the agency in the coming months. Once they start calling it eats up our capacity because now we’re answering the phone over and over and over,” Thompson said.Ī waiver from the U.S Department of Agriculture eliminating interview requirements for SNAP is the primary reason DWSS has been able to keep up with cases, said Thompson. “The problem we find is that a customer will wait approximately 6 days before they start calling. When it’s delayed by two days on average it means some of those applications are being delayed by three weeks,” Thompson said. While a two day delay may seem insignificant, “a two day increase is a significant increase. We normally process cases in about eight and a half days on average and that has increased to 10.7 over the last two months,” said Robert Thompson, deputy administrator for the agency. In October, the most recent data available, the number of individuals on SNAP increased by more than 15 percent over the same time last year, according to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services Division of Welfare and Supportive Services (DWSS).Īs of October there were more than 480,000 Nevadans receiving SNAP benefits. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is a lifeline for struggling households who have lost income and employment. If you have any questions, please send us an email.Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, food insecurity in Nevada has grown, as has the number of people applying for food assistance programs, leading to an administrative strain that is delaying assistance to hungry households.
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#NEVADA FOOD STAMPS CODE#
This project has no affiliation with 18F, instead building on top of the code they started. The original prototype this project is based on was created by 18F, a government organization.
#NEVADA FOOD STAMPS FULL#
citizens, benefit changes due to the pandemic, and full Spanish translation. The calculator supports eligibility screening for the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, households where some members are not U.S.
#NEVADA FOOD STAMPS MANUALS#
We have reviewed SNAP policy manuals from every state in order to build one tool that is accessible nationwide and adaptable to changes in SNAP policy. This website is run by Ben Molin and Andreas Vandris to create SNAP technology resources for individuals and anti-hunger organizations. The mission of this website and SNAP prescreener is to help connect individuals to SNAP benefits and to make SNAP eligibility data more accessible.