Planned Action: Family Pathways Food Access and Finance staff will communicate the audit finding to the appropriate authoritative TEFAP bodies: the Minnesota Department of Human Services, as administrator of Minnesota’s TEFAP program and issuer of Minnesota’s TEFAP Policy and Operations Manual, as well as Second Harvest Heartland, as pass-through agent and contractor of TEFAP food distribution. In addition to communicating the audit finding, Family Pathways will confirm what authorities exist for Family Pathways, as a TEFAP provider, to implement additional internal controls, including but not limited to: modifying current DHS TEFAP forms and applications, and/or requiring additional client application forms. Family Pathways would like to note that the current DHS TEFAP Policy and Operations Manual 2023, effective for the audit period indicated above, states that “additional eligibility criteria cannot be imposed on participants” and that “TEFAP Providers agree to make it as easy as possible for those in need to access food.”