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Date FNS Document# Title
Updates to the School Nutrition Standards
Serious Deficiency Process in the CACFP and SFSP Proposed Rule
September 2023 OIG Audit Memos: Unused Reimbursement and Site Proximity
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Webinar for State Agencies: IFR for Non-Congregate Summer Meal Service
Safe Meals, Healthy Kids: Food Safety for Summer Meals
CNP Integrity Final Rule: School Meal Programs Provisions Webinar
SFSP 03-2024, SP 05-2024 Implementation Guidance for the Rural Non-congregate Option Provisions of the Interim Final Rule, Establishing the Summer EBT Program and Rural Non-Congregate Option in the Summer Meal Programs
Guidance on Performance Standards, Budgets, and Management Plans in the SFSP
Evaluating and Approving SFSP Budgets
Best Practices for Meal Claim Verification of Self-Prep Sites
Professional Standards: Resources
SP 01-2024, CACFP 01-2024, SFSP 01-2024 Clarification of Allowable Flexibilities for Child Nutrition Programs Experiencing Milk Supply Shortages
SFSP 05-2017 Summer Food Service Program Questions and Answers - Revised
Area Eligibility
SP 22-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Implementing the New Minimum Identified Student Percentage
Recursos de los estándares profesionales
Back to School
Child Nutrition Database
Rural Non-Congregate Meal Service Examples: Summer 2023
Regreso a clases
CACFP 08-2023, SFSP 10-2023 Best Practices for Streamlining Applications for Year-Round Program Operations
SFSP 10-2023 Initial Site Visits in the Summer Food Service Program
SFSP 08-2023 Guidance on Site Selection Criteria during Reviews in the SFSP
Mapping Tools for Summer Meal Programs
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
SP16-2023 Revised Prototype Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
SFSP 05-2023 SFSP Best Practices for Meal Claim Verification and Ensuring Properly Payable Claims
SFSP 08-2024, SP 15-2024 Non-Congregate Meal Service in Rural Areas: Q&As #2
SP 02-2023 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement Rates for the School Breakfast Program and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2023-24
The Whole Grain Resource for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
SP16-2022 Third Allocation of Supply Chain Assistance Funds to Alleviate Supply Chain Disruptions in the School Meal Programs
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Transitioning to Standard Operations in the Child Nutrition Programs and the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022: Follow-Up Questions and Answers from Webinars
Support for Child Nutrition Program Operators
School Meals Application Materials in French
Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
SP 11-2022 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement for the SBP and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the NSLP in SY 2022-23 and 2023-24
Summer Feeding Requirements - Summer 2022 Comparison Table
FNS-896 Offering Meats and Meat Alternates at School Breakfast
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #64 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Area Eligibility for Closed Enrolled Sites in the SFSP and the NSLP Seamless Summer Option – Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #60 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
CN - Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers – Extension 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #52 CN: Extend Area Eligibility Waivers Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #32 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers through August 31, 2020
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Accurate Meal Counting and Claiming in SFSP
Do's and Don'ts for Site Supervisors
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Page updated: November 20, 2019