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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Area Eligibility
Translated Applications
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
Meal Benefit Income Eligibility Form
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Local School Wellness Policies
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
Nutrition Standards for School Meals
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
Professional Standards
Tools for Schools: Focusing on Smart Snacks
Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Verification Toolkit
Unpaid Meal Charges
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2018-2019)
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
SP 05-2018, CACFP 05-2018 Providing Child Nutrition Program Benefits to Disaster Survivor Evacuees
CACFP18-2017 Clarifications: Funding Levels for FY 2018 Child and Adult Care Food Program Audit Fund Allocation
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
Final Rule: Local School Wellness Policy Implementation Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010; Approval of Information Collection Request
CACFP05-2017 Offer Versus Serve and Family Style Meals in the Child and Adult Care Food Program
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
School Nutrition Program Operations Study - SY 2012-13
Examining the Potential to Expand Data Matching in the School Meal Program Eligibility and Verification Processes
CACFP27-2016 Clarifications: Funding Levels for FY 2017 CACFP Audit Fund Allocation
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
School Meals Application Materials in Punjabi
School Meals Application Materials in Ukranian
School Meals Application Materials in Karen
School Meals Application Materials in Burmese
Page updated: November 20, 2019