Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations are made by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary and TPS periods are typically granted in 18-month increments.
November 21, 2025
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temporal
How TPS designations and renewal periods are administered.
State agencies submit benefit issuance files to EBT vendors for processing, and resubmitting those files can take several additional days, which can delay benefit disbursement.
November 12, 2025
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operational
Operational steps that affect timing of SNAP benefit disbursement
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) charges fees to external researchers for access to its data, with revenues collected into a user fee fund.
October 23, 2025
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policy
CMS data access is provided to outside researchers through a fee structure deposited into a user fee fund.
New York State provides nine days of in-person early voting prior to Election Day.
January 01, 2025
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temporal
State-level schedule for in-person early voting windows.
Some election jurisdictions remove voter registrations that are confirmed abandoned and inactive for at least four consecutive years as part of routine voter-roll maintenance.
October 28, 2024
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procedural
Describes a common voter-roll maintenance practice and an inactivity threshold used by some jurisdictions.
Voter roll maintenance processes commonly include using external databases to screen registrations for noncitizen registrants.
January 01, 2024
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temporal
Election administrators cross-check registration lists against external data sources as part of list maintenance.
New Jersey's implementation of in-person early voting requires each county to designate in-person early voting locations for the early voting period.
January 01, 2021
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temporal
Operational detail about how the 2021 New Jersey early voting law is implemented.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicaid program.
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organizational
CMS oversees federal administration of Medicaid and Medicare programs.
Local election jurisdictions commonly permit observation of election operations by local, state, federal, and sometimes international observers.
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procedural
Observation by multiple levels of observers is a standard practice used to increase transparency in election administration.
Some scholarship programs use a pooled application process to consider applicants for multiple awards and to identify the source of a recipient's aid without necessarily determining an applicant's eligibility, receipt, or award amount through that single process.
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process
Describes a common administrative mechanism for matching applicants to multiple scholarships.