# Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations: Amendments Related to the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
> **Food and Nutrition Service** · Final rule. · Published 2011-04-06 · Effective 2011-05-06 · 76 FR 18861
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-8153
- **Category:** food-assistance
- **Sub-agency:** Food and Nutrition Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 18861
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 253
- **Publication date:** 2011-04-06
- **Effective date:** 2011-05-06
- **USDA docket:** FNS-2009-0006
## Abstract

This rule amends Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) regulations to conform FDPIR policy to the requirements included in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (the Farm Bill) for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The provisions of this rulemaking are intended to improve program service to applicants and participants and promote consistency in the eligibility determination processes of FDPIR and SNAP. Specifically, this rule permanently excludes combat pay from being considered as income and eliminates the maximum dollar limit of the dependent care deduction. The rule also excludes from resource consideration household funds held in qualified education savings accounts identified in the Farm Bill and excludes any other education savings accounts for which an exclusion is allowed under SNAP. This rule also clarifies that the current resource exclusion for retirement accounts is restricted to the qualified retirement accounts identified in the Farm Bill, and that a resource exclusion will be allowed for any other retirement account for which an exclusion is allowed under SNAP. Finally, the rule clarifies that the FDPIR regulations regarding income eligibility refer to the SNAP net monthly income standard, not the SNAP gross monthly income standard.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/04/06/2011-8153/food-distribution-program-on-indian-reservations-amendments-related-to-the-food-conservation-and)
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