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WORK REGISTRANT DATA The SNAP general work requirements are described at 7 CFR 273.7(a). Individuals who do not meet a federal exemption from the general work requirements, as listed in 7 CFR 273.7(b)(1), are subject to the general work requirement and must register for work. In accordance with 7 CFR 273.7(c)(10), the State agency must submit to FNS the number of work registrants in the State as of October 1st. This information is submitted on the first quarter E&T Program Activity Report (FNS-583). Describe the process the State agency uses to count all work registrants in the State as of the first day of the new fiscal year (October 1). The query for Line 1 has two parts to it: MFIP food and SNAP. For MFIP food, any work registrant receiving MFIP food who is active in October and was active in September of that same year is selected; this indicates that work registrants are carried over from the previous year. Similarly, work registrants receiving SNAP who were active in October of that year and active in the prior month to September are also queried. Work registrants from both queries are added up and reported to FNS. Line 1: Count of all work registrants whose case was active on September 30th at midnight in the previous fiscal year. This number provides an accurate count of those on board on October 1st. It does not include new applications processed on this date. The select statement consists of “distinct personid”. Provide information about how work registrant data is pulled from the eligibility system, including the date the data is pulled. Line 2: New distinct (unduplicated) work registrants are pulled each month beginning with October. The query has a subquery that retrieves the earliest month in which each personID shows up in the MFIP WREG/SNAP E&T table after the month of August of the previous year. How are work registrants identified in the eligibility system? Work registrant data is gathered from the DCYF Data Warehouse using Structured Query Language (SQL) based on guidance provided by FNS regional and national staff. County eligibility workers use work registration codes when approving SNAP eligibility in MAXIS on the STAT/WREG panel, and ESPs use WF1 to record participant level data and activities. The MAXIS codes meet federal exemption code definitions in 7 CFR 273.7. Describe measures taken to prevent duplicate counting of work registrants within the federal fiscal year. Lines 1, 2, 7, and 8 are unduplicated. Line 1: The query is structured to select distinct individuals with a work registration code who are active on the first month of the FFY who were also on SNAP/MFIP the month prior (September). This query is run for both MFIP food and SNAP separately and added up. A person can only be on MFIP food or SNAP, they cannot be receiving both. These work registrants are counted once, at the beginning of the new federal fiscal year. Line 2: This query pulls the new work registrants from SNAP and MFIP food for each month (unduplicated each month) by selecting distinct participants for a given month. 1/29/26, 8:18 AM State Plan MN FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-mnfy26stateplan//index.html 50/253