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SNAP Guidelines

Vendors who participate in SNAP with Urbana’s Market at the Square will need to follow these guidelines for the 2020 Market Season. Vendors should accept SNAP tokens from customers like normal, just as they have in past seasons.  If you are new to the Urbana’s Market at the Square SNAP token program, please read the section “Who Participates in SNAP” carefully.  If you take SNAP tokens as payment, but you are not a qualifying vendor, we cannot reimburse you.

How to redeem tokens for the 2020 Season

• Place all tokens in a quart or gallon size zip-loc (or similar) bag.
• Clearly write your name and token count on the bag. Alternatively you can write your name and token count on a separate piece of paper and place it in the bag with the tokens.
  • ALL BAGS MUST HAVE A LABEL (or they cannot be counted.)
• Place the bag of tokens in the designated SNAP token bin at the Info tent, located at the North-West corner of the market near the entrance.  Do not hand your bag to market staff.

Tokens will be quarantined for a minimum of 4 days before being counted by market staff.  Redemption checks for SNAP tokens will go out two weeks after they are submitted (example: submit on May 2nd, check will be mailed May 15th.) Please wait to submit SNAP tokens until you have a minimum of 20.

Who Participates in SNAP?

• Any food for the household, such as:
  • Fruits and Vegetables
  • Meat, Poultry, and Fish
  • Dairy products
  • Breads and cereals
  • Other foods such as pre-packaged snack foods and non-alcoholic beverages
  • Seeds and plants, which produce food for the household to eat.
• DO NOT accept SNAP tokens for these items:
  • Pet foods
  • Cleaning supplies, paper products, and other household supplies
  • Hygiene items, cosmetics
  • Vitamins, medicines, and supplements
  • Live animals (except shellfish, fish removed from water, and animals slaughtered prior to pick-up from market.)
  • Hot foods or Prepared Foods fit for immediate consumption (example: individual doughnuts, cakes, or cookies, poured beverages, anything from food trucks, etc.)
  • Any non-food item, such as:
    • Pet foods
    • Cleaning supplies, paper products, and other household supplies
    • Hygiene items, cosmetics
• Only tokens with the Green or Orange rooster that say Urbana’s Market at the Square are eligible for redemption from Urbana’s Market at the Square.  Tokens may have a black or red star on them, that is to signify the token was given to the shopper as matching funds.  You do not need to do anything different with these tokens.
• Sometimes tokens from other markets make their way into ours.  DO NOT accept these tokens, they cannot be redeemed.
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  • Red, UBA – Urbana’s Market IN the Square