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Date FNS Document# Title
Final Rule - Child Nutrition Programs: Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020-2025 DGAs
Updates to the School Nutrition Standards
Final Rule for School Meal Standards
Implementation Timeline for Updating the School Meal Standards
How We Got Here: School Nutrition Standards Final Rule
Implementation Timeline for Updated Nutrition Requirements in CACFP & SFSP
Serious Deficiency Process in the CACFP and SFSP
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
Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP
Community Eligibility Provision Resource Center
Area Eligibility
Timeline for Enhancing USDA Summer Nutrition Programs
CACFP 08-2023, SFSP 10-2023 Best Practices for Streamlining Applications for Year-Round Program Operations
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
SP28-2017 Revised Prototype Free and Reduced Price Application for SY 2017-2018
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
Extension of Comment Period - CNP Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 DGAs
School Meal Standards Comparison Chart
Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP Webinar
Final Rule: Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP
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
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
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 #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
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
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
CN Labeling and PFS Guidance for Food Manufacturers/Industry
Best Practices: Sponsor Retention
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
FNS-640 FNS-640: SY 2017-18 Instructions and Reporting Guidance
SP12-2019 Flexibility for the Administrative Review Cycle Requirement
Page updated: November 20, 2019