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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
FY 2023 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School-Aged Children
Team Nutrition Training Grants
Stronger with School Meals Educational Materials
Rates of Reimbursement
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
FY23 Team Nutrition Grant Supporting Nutrition Education for School-Aged Children Informational Webinar
Materiales para el desayuno escolar
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
Comment Request: Generic Clearance to Conduct Formative Research or Development of Nutrition Education and Promotion Materials and Related Tools and Grants for FNS Population Groups
School Breakfast Materials
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Student Portal: Fueling My Healthy Life
Fueling My Healthy Life
Local School Wellness Policies
National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates
Support for Child Nutrition Program Operators
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
Indicators of Diet Quality, Nutrition, and Health for Americans by Program Participation Status, 2011–2016: USDA NSLP Report
Start Right With Breakfast
School Meals Programs - National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022)
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #86 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Summer Food Service Program Reimbursement Rates in SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast 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
National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020)
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Verification Toolkit
Correction: CACFP National Average Payment Rates, Day Care Home Food Service Payment Rates, and Administrative Reimbursement Rates for Sponsoring Organizations of Day Care Homes (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
Correction: NSLP, Special Milk, SBP National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates
National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs; National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
CACFP: National Average Payment Rates, Day Care Home Food Service Payment Rates, and Administrative Reimbursement Rates for Sponsoring Organizations of Day Care Homes (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2018-2019)
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018)
CACFP: National Average Payment Rates, Day Care Home Food Service Payment Rates, and Administrative Reimbursement Rates for Sponsoring Organizations of Day Care Homes (July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018)
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2017-2018)
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
USDA School Meals Prototype Application Disclaimer
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Examining the Potential to Expand Data Matching in the School Meal Program Eligibility and Verification Processes
Page updated: November 20, 2019