Ohio earned a "High Performance Bonus" of $4,875,956 from the United States Department of Agriculture for its Food Assistance payment accuracy rate for FFY 2009.

ODJFS will utilize $3,049,440 for internal investment activities and will release the remaining $1,826,516 of the award to the county departments of job and family services (CDJFS).

ODJFS will follow the methodology set forth in rules 5101:9-6-05 and 5101:9-6-09 of the Administrative Code, currently used to allocate funding for the Income Maintenance and Food Assistance Employment and Training allocations, to distribute the bonus. Funding will be distributed by electronic funds transfer to the county treasurer. Agencies should code bonus funds received as follows:

Project Code:910

Description:Received Outside System

Account Code:470950

Description:Deposits - State

The CDJFS may use the SNAP bonus as local dollars to cover ceiling excess in any allocation currently distributed to the CDJFS. The SNAP bonus may be used as state/local match or for expenditures normally reported to other funding sources, as determined at the local level, by using CFIS coding currently in place.

Questions may be directed to your ODJFS fiscal supervisor or to the Bureau of County Finance and Technical Assistance at (614) 752-9194.