Mail Issuance
A. Prevention of Mail Issuance Losses All EBT cards shall be mailed as first-class mail, in sturdy non-forwarding envelopes. B. Liability for EBT Cards Lost in the Mail USDA/FCS will assume financial liability for all properly issued EBT cards lost in the mail except losses in excess of three tenths of a percent (0.3%) of the state total quarterly mail issuance loss. Each local office that has a mail loss during a quarter will be assessed a percentage of the state total penalty when a penalty is assessed against the state by the USDA/FNS. C. SNAP Mail Issuance Report Form FNS-259 reports shall be submitted by local offices for each unit using a mail issuance system. Local offices shall submit Form FNS-259 reports so that they are received by the fifteenth
(15th) day of the next month.