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Date FNS Document# Title
Webinar: Community Eligibility Provision 101
Community Eligibility Provision Fact Sheet
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
CEP Planning and Implementation Guidance
SP 11-2024 CEP: State Agency Procedures to Ensure Identified Student Percentage Accuracy
SP 10-2024 CEP: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2024-25 Election Deadline
SP 09-2024 Community Eligibility Provision: Guidance and Updated Q&As
SP 08-2024 Community Eligibility Provision: Planning and Implementation Guidance - Updated
Community Eligibility Provision Status of School Districts and Schools by State
Community Eligibility Provision Resource Center
Webinar on Final Rule: CEP- Increasing Options for Schools
Area Eligibility
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Programs - CEP Increasing Options for Schools
CEP Final Rule Summary
SP 22-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Implementing the New Minimum Identified Student Percentage
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Proposed Rule: Community Eligibility Provision – Increasing Options for Schools Webinar
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
Proposed Rule: Child Nutrition Programs Community Eligibility Provision - Increasing Options for Schools
SP 10-2023 Updated Title I Guidance for Making Within District Allocations
SP 09-2023 Community Eligibility Provision: Statutory Annual Notification and Publication Requirements and School Year 2023-2024 Election Deadline
SP 08-2023 Free or Low-Cost Internet Services Available to All Households with Kids at Schools Participating in the Community Eligibility Provision
CN Flexibilities for Summer 2022 and School Year 2022-23
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
School Meals Programs Comparison Table of Flexibilities for School Year 2021-22 and School Year 2022-23
School Meals Application Materials in French
Overview of the Keep Kids Fed Act and New Supply Chain Assistance Funding
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
Transitioning to Normal Child Nutrition Operations: Additional Waiver Opportunities
Summer Feeding Requirements - Summer 2022 Comparison Table
Nationwide Waivers of Child Nutrition Monitoring
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #106 Nationwide Waiver for Selected Child Nutrition Program Reporting Requirements
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #99 Nationwide Waiver of the Annual Half Aggregate Monitoring Requirement in the Summer Food Service Program
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #90 (Corrected) Nationwide Waiver to Allow Specific School Meal Pattern Flexibility for SY 2021-22
SP17 CACFP15 SFSP09-2021 COVID-19 Waiver Requests Submitted Prior to December 31, 2020
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #97 Nationwide Waiver to Provide Flexibility for School Meal Programs Administrative Reviews of SFAs Operating Only the SSO in SY 2021-22
SP 12-2021 Department of Education Information on the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
Oversight Plan Waiver
School Meals Operations Study: Evaluation of the COVID-19 Child Nutrition Waivers and Child Nutrition Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #84 Child Nutrition Nationwide Waiver Update for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #94 Nationwide Waiver of Onsite Monitoring Requirements in the School Meal Programs – Revised – EXTENSION 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #93 Nationwide Waiver of Area Eligibility in the Afterschool Programs and for Family Day Care Home Providers in SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #92 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibility for Senior High Schools in SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #89 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Parents and Guardians to Pick Up Meals for Children for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #88 Nationwide Waiver of Meal Times Requirements for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #87 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Non-Congregate Meal Service for SY 2021-22
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 #81 Nationwide Waiver to Waive First Week Site Visits in the Summer Food Service Program for Summer 2021 Operations – EXTENSION 3
Page updated: November 20, 2019