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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
CSFP: Income Guidelines for 2024
SP 07-2024, CACFP 03-2024 Updated Instructions for the SAE Recovery Process and SAE Financial Status Report
SP 04-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: State Agency Discretion for Repeat Meal Pattern Violations Fiscal Action
SP 03-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: Administrative Review & FSMC Review Cycles
FDPIR FY 24 Net Monthly Income Standards
Child Nutrition: Program Integrity Final Rule
Initial Implementation Memo: Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Program Integrity
FNS Handbook 501, Exhibit O FDPIR Monthly Distribution Guide Rates By Household Size
Translated Applications
USDA DoD Fresh DLA Service Representatives
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Multi-Agency Task Force to Provide Coordination and Direction for USDA Foods Programs, July 2018 – December 2020
Multi-Agency Task Force to Provide Coordination and Direction for USDA Foods Programs, January 2021 - July 2022
FD-152: Discontinuance of the High Security Seal Requirement for USDA Foods Deliveries
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
CSFP: Income Guidelines for 2023
NAFDPIR Annual Conference Presentations
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
School Meals Application Materials in French
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
CSFP 2022 Income Guidelines
FDPIR, TEFAP, and CSFP Income Exclusions under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
Commodity Supplemental Food Program: Income Guidelines for 2021
FDPIR Federal Pandemic Unemployment Income Exclusion
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
CSFP: Income Guidelines for 2020
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
CSFP Income Guidelines for 2019
Verification Toolkit
Funds Provided to American Indians/Alaska Natives that are Excluded by Law
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2018-2019)
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
Integrity Features of a Web-based School Meal Application
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2017-2018)
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
USDA School Meals Prototype Application Disclaimer
FD-076 Categorical Eligibility (Revised)
Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Report to Congress: State Implementation Progress, SY 2014-15
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Second Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study (APEC II): Estimating and Validating Statistical Models for Updating Estimates of Improper Payments in NSLP and SBP
Page updated: November 20, 2019