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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
SP03-2020 FNS-640 Reporting Guidance
SP 03-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: Administrative Review & FSMC Review Cycles
Community Eligibility Provision Resource Center
Translated Applications
Rates of Reimbursement
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
SP28-2017 Revised Prototype Free and Reduced Price Application for SY 2017-2018
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Income Eligibility Guidelines
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Local School Wellness Policies
Local Process: How to Develop, Implement, and Evaluate a Wellness Policy
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
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2022-2023)
School Meals Programs - National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022)
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
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 #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
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2021-22)
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #72 Nationwide Waiver for Selected Child Nutrition Program Reporting Requirements
Off-site Monitoring Fact Sheets for Child 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 #41 Nationwide Waiver of Onsite Monitoring Requirements in the School Meals Programs – Extension 2
Administrative Review Guidance and Tools
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #32 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers through August 31, 2020
SP21 CACFP12 SFSP12-2020 Q&As related to Food Service Management Company Contracts and Allowable Costs during the COVID-19 Pandemic
SP11 CACFP06 SFSP05-2020 Q&As related to the Child Nutrition Program Monitoring and Reporting Nationwide Waivers
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #9 Nationwide Waiver of Onsite Monitoring Requirements in the School Meals Programs
Proposed Rules: Simplifying Meal Service and Monitoring Requirements in the NSLP and SBP
SP06-2020 School Breakfast Program: Continuation of the Substitution of Vegetables for Fruit Flexibility
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
CN Labeling and PFS Guidance for Food Manufacturers/Industry
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)
SP16-2019 Substitution of Vegetables for Fruit
FNS-640 FNS-640: SY 2017-18 Instructions and Reporting Guidance
SP12-2019 Flexibility for the Administrative Review Cycle Requirement
SP11-2019 Administrative Review – SY 2018-2019 Fiscal Action Workbook Update
Verification Toolkit
SP04-2019 FY 2019 Administrative Review and Training Grants
Correction: NSLP, Special Milk, SBP National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates
Page updated: November 20, 2019