USDA FNS: Disaster Assistance coordina nutrición con territories, Puerto Rico en el mapa

El 19 de agosto de 2021, esta mesa ancla en el hub USDA Food and Nutrition Service Disaster Assistance. FNA Answers the Call to Help: coordinate with state, territory, tribal, and voluntary organizations to provide nutrition assistance to families and individuals affected by a disaster or emergency. El mapa del hub incluye PR junto a AS, GU, CNMI y USVI. Topic both.

A state or U.S. territory may request additional disaster waiver flexibilities to assist existing SNAP households affected by a disaster to have their regular program benefits replaced if food purchased with SNAP was destroyed, or to allow households to purchase hot, prepared foods for immediate consumption for a period of time. In certain circumstances, FNS can also provide infant formula and food within 96 hours of a request by FEMA or a state.

El hub enlaza Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) Block Grants for Territories y la ficha Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Disaster Nutrition Assistance —peg hermano, no primaria de esta nota. En la Isla el SNAP continental no opera igual: Puerto Rico corre NAP bajo block grant. Quien escriba D-SNAP para PR sin mirar NAP confunde vehículos. Allocated≠obligated≠disbursed≠theft.

Según la ficha PR enlazada desde el ecosistema Disaster Assistance (contexto, no inventar montos ausentes del hub): Past Responses 2022 Incident Hurricane Fiona Began Sept. 18, 2022. On Sept. 23, 2022, FNA approved the Puerto Rico Administration for the Socio-Economic Development of the Family (ADSEF) request to extend certification periods for sixty days for ongoing NAP participants due to severe damage from Hurricane Fiona; waiver through Nov. 21, 2022.

Also on Sept. 23, 2022, FNA approved Puerto Rico's request to extend the expiration date to waive state plan requirements and allow hot foods to be purchased at certified retailers utilizing the NAP card —amended waiver through Oct. 9, 2022; prior hot-foods waiver through Sept. 25, 2022 (approved Sept. 20). On Sept. 24, 2022, FNA approved TEFAP for Disaster Household Distribution in response to Fiona: distribution of USDA Foods pre-boxed packages to approximately 30,000 individuals beginning Sept. 20 through Oct. 15, 2022.

WIC: On Sept. 30, 2022, FNA approved Puerto Rico WIC request for a waiver so participants who did not receive September benefits due to Fiona may receive and redeem those benefits through Nov. 30, 2022, expected only for clinics that remain negatively impacted. Child Nutrition: On Sept. 25, 2022, waivers for SFSP/SSO unanticipated school closures through Oct. 31, 2022 (non-congregate, parent pickup, meal times, school sites) and NSLP/SBP/CACFP flexibilities including meal pattern exception when requirements cannot be met due to Fiona.

El factsheet del hub resume el marco nacional: coordinate closely with state agencies, territories, Tribes, and voluntary organization partners; USDA Foods for mass feeding and/or household distribution during a Presidentially Declared Disaster or Emergency; inventories utilized are replaced by USDA; D-SNAP after Presidential Major Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance once retailers reopen and power is restored. English million. No inventar allotment SNAP para PR donde corre NAP.

Past Responses en la ficha PR también listan 2020 Earthquake (enero 2020) con meal pattern y congregate feeding waivers vía PRDOE, y Tropical Storm Dorian (agosto 2019) cuando Family Affairs advised FNA that some NAP benefits were issued one week early in anticipation. La fecha de nota del board es 2021-08-19; el hub Disaster Assistance es el peg institucional de nutrición en desastres, con PR en el mapa de territories.

Para borinquenmade.blog: el hub documenta coordinación territory-level y waiver tools; el rastro Fiona/NAP en la ficha hermana ilustra cómo se aplican sin convertir waivers en pots de money. No conflar con FSA emergency farm loans ni LFP maps ya archivados. SSD only; no GitHub. Primaria = disaster-assistance hub assigned.

En síntesis: FNS Disaster Assistance coordina nutrición con states y territories —incluyendo Puerto Rico en el mapa— vía waivers SNAP/D-SNAP donde aplica, NAP/hot foods/TEFAP/WIC/CN en la Isla tras Fiona, y USDA Foods under Presidential declarations. Sin inventar cheques, la nota deja el hub limpio para la pista de ayuda alimentaria en desastre.