Cleared and Cancelled Allocations

Throughout the program year, your state agency may cancel or clear allocations for your organization. These actions impact your allocations and your entitlement in different ways.

Cleared Allocations

Your state agency expects your organization to place orders for all product quantities in inventory at your servicing warehouse by the allocation close date. The state agency clears allocations past the allocation close date. This process takes all allocated inventory from the assigned sponsor and makes it available to all sponsors as unassigned inventory.

If your state agency clears your allocated inventory, you lose access to the product quantity. Other sponsors can place unassigned requests for this product quantity at the servicing warehouse.

Cancelled Allocations

Occasionally, your state agency needs to cancel an allocation. Typically, this happens before the product appears in your inventory. However, if the product already appears in your inventory, cancelling the allocation moves the allocated product quantities to the unassigned inventory. In most cases, your state agency also restores the entitlement spent by sponsors, based on its policies and procedures. The CNPweb updates your inventory to reflect the cancelled allocation.