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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Professional Standards: Resources
Area Eligibility
Recursos de los estándares profesionales
303-S Guía de estándares profesionales para programas de nutrición escolar
Translated Applications
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
USDA Professional Standards Training Tracker Tool
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
FNS-486A Professional Standards Summary of Updates Flyer
FNS-486A-S Boletín de resumen de las actualizaciones de los estándares profesionales
Income Eligibility Guidelines
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
Meal Benefit Income Eligibility Form
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
303 Guide to Professional Standards for School Nutrition Programs
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
SP05-2020 Questions & Answers Regarding Professional Standards for State and Local School Nutrition Program Personnel
Professional Standards
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Verification Toolkit
Unpaid Meal Charges
SFSP01-2019 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
SFSP06-2018 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission: SFSP 01-2007 and SFSP 06-2015
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2018-2019)
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
Proposed Rule: Hiring Flexibility Under Professional Standards
SP 05-2018, CACFP 05-2018 Providing Child Nutrition Program Benefits to Disaster Survivor Evacuees
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
SP29-2017 2017 Edition: Overcoming the Unpaid Meal Challenge - Proven Strategies from Our Nation’s Schools
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2017-2018)
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Comment Request - Evaluation of the Direct Certification With Medicaid for Free and Reduced-Price (DCM-F/RP) Meals Demonstrations
USDA School Meals Prototype Application Disclaimer
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Special Nutrition Program Operations Study, SY 2013-14
Examining the Potential to Expand Data Matching in the School Meal Program Eligibility and Verification Processes
School Meals Application Materials in Nepali
School Meals Application Materials in Kru
School Meals Application Materials in Thai
School Meals Application Materials in Sudanese
School Meals Application Materials in Khmer
Page updated: November 20, 2019