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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Area Eligibility
CACFP Reimbursement Rates
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
SFSP Reimbursement Rates
Meal Benefit Income Eligibility Form
National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates
School Meals Application Materials in French
School Meals Programs - National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022)
CACFP 12-2021 Reimbursement for Meals and Snacks Served to Young Adults in the CACFP - Q&A's
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
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #75 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Non-Congregate Feeding for Summer 2021 Operations – EXTENSION 6
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #78 Nationwide Waiver of Meal Service Time Restrictions for Summer 2021 Operations – EXTENSION 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #80 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Area Eligibility for Closed Enrolled Sites for Summer 2021 Operations – EXTENSION 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #77 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers for Summer 2021 Operations – EXTENSION 4
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #76 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Parents and Guardians to Pick Up Meals for Children for Summer 2021 Operations – EXTENSION 6
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #62 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Parents and Guardians to Pick Up Meals for Children – Extension 5
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #61 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Non-congregate Feeding in the SFSP and the NSLP Seamless Summer Option – Extension 5
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 #55 CN - Allow Parents and Guardians to Pick Up Meals for Children - Extension 4
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #54 CN - Allow Non-Congregate Feeding in SFSP and SSO - Extension 4
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #44 CN - Nationwide Waiver to Allow Non-congregate Feeding in SFSP - Extension 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #38 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibility in the Child Nutrition Programs – Extension 5
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #32 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers through August 31, 2020
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #23 CN COVID-19 Meal Times Nationwide Waiver - Extension
COVID-19 Child Nutrition Response #22 Nationwide Non-Congregate Feeding Waiver- Extension
Child Nutrition Area Eligibility Waiver
National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020)
SFSP 2019 Reimbursement Rates
Verification Toolkit
SFSP01-2019 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
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
SFSP 2018 Reimbursement Rates
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)
SFSP 2017 Reimbursement Rates
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
School Meals Application Materials in Nepali
School Meals Application Materials in Kru
School Meals Application Materials in Thai
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