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• STEP Portal System Administration This team ensures effective administration, utilization, and maintenance of the STEP Portal, which supports accurate data entry, seamless provider collaboration, and compliance with program requirements. • SNAP E&T Management Evaluations This team is responsible for monitoring providers, conducting site visits, completing reports, and testing data and system processes to ensure accuracy and effectiveness. • SNAP E&T Policy and Training This team is responsible for developing, writing, revising, and distributing policies and procedures for Georgia’s SNAP E&T Program, as well as training providers and State staff. How does the E&T unit coordinate and communicate on an ongoing basis with the units responsible for certification policy? The SNAP E&T Unit is aligned with the Food and Nutrition Unit (FANU), both of which are incorporated into the State Operations Unit. The overall unit comprises SNAP policy specialists and food program coordinators. The Food and Nutrition Unit (SNAP Policy Unit) is responsible for policy certification and ensuring State policy compliance with federal regulations. The SNAP E&T Unit administers the federal SNAP E&T Program, SNAP Works. The SNAP E&T Unit collaborates with the Food & Nutrition Unit to engage our eligibility staff by conducting meetings and training sessions with the following internal departments, discussing updates to federal regulations and policy changes. The meeting's goal is to gather feedback on the information, coordinate training, and keep the eligibility staff informed of FNS guidance and federal regulations that impact eligibility workers as they relate to the SNAP E&T Program. The internal departments include, but are not limited to, the following: Eligibility Staff Quality Assurance Staff, and Training and Professional Development Section Describe the State's relationships and communication with intermediaries or E&T providers. To communicate with intermediaries and E&T providers, the State utilizes the following: • SNAP Works Summit • Provider Engagement Meeting • Provider Staffing • Technical Assistance • Training • SharePoint Sites • Encrypted Emails • STEP Portal Describe how the State agency shares new policies, procedures, or other information with the intermediary or other E&T provider. The State shares new policies, procedures, and other information with the intermediary and E&T providers by utilizing the following: 1/28/26, 11:19 AM State Plan GA FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-gafy26stateplan//index.html 14/108