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Title 7: SNAP Page 46 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter A: Administration Management Evaluation Revised June 20, 2025 Local Office Responsibilities Relating to…  A continuing flow of information between the field eligibility teams, Central Office, and FNS, necessary to develop the solutions to problems in program policy and procedures. Federal regulations require that state agencies conduct reviews in a manner that will best measure compliance with each program requirement. Review procedures must be adequate to identify problems and the causes of those problems. Because the operational structure of field eligibility teams may differ, the procedure used to review these teams may also differ. Local Office Responsibilities Relating to Management Evaluation Legal reference: 7 CFR 275.5 The local office shall:  Respond to data and case sampling requests.  Make required adjustments, if any, to individual cases under corrective action.  Submit a corrective action plan through the Eligibility Determination Manager (EDM) in response to the management evaluation report and recommendations. The corrective action plan will: • Describe corrective actions already taken and corrective actions planned for deficiencies cited in the management evaluation report. • Give time frames for any actions still to be implemented. Management evaluation staff then reviews the response and requests further information or action when appropriate.