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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
State Guidance on Pandemic EBT
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
State Guidance on Coronavirus P-EBT in Schools
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
Nationwide Waivers of Child Nutrition Monitoring
Pandemic EBT – State Plans for 2021-22
SP19-2021 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Operations for SY 2021-22 during COVID-19
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #2 CN COVID-19 Non-congregate Feeding Nationwide Waiver
CN - SFSP Application Notification Waiver
CN - SFSP Monitoring Waiver
P-EBT Assistance for Children in Schools that are Closed or have Reduced Attendance
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
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #12 Waiver of 60-Day Reporting Requirements
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #24 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibility - Extension 2
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #13 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Meal Pattern Flexibility - Extension
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #5 CN - Parent Pickup Waivers for School Meals
COVID-19: Child Nutrition Response #1 CN COVID-19 Meal Times Nationwide Waiver
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
SP04 CACFP03 SFSP03-2020 Meal Service During Unanticipated School Closures
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
SFSP01-2019 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
SP 05-2018, CACFP 05-2018 Providing Child Nutrition Program Benefits to Disaster Survivor Evacuees
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Comment Request - Third Access Participation Eligibility and Certification Study Series (APEC III)
SP51-2016 Ensuring Year-long Eligibility in the School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk in Schools
CFR Correction: Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk in Schools
SFSP06-2015 Categorical Eligibility in the Summer Food Service Program
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2007-2008)
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2011-2012)
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2012-2013)
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2013-2014)
CACFP01 SFSP01-2015 Duration of Income Eligibility Determinations: Guidance and Q&As
SP51-2014 Eligibility Effective Date for Directly Certified Students
SP 46-2014, CACFP 12-2014, SFSP 18-2014 Disaster Response
SP30-2014 Determining Eligibility for Two Cent Differential Reimbursement in New Schools
CACFP07 SFSP12-2014 Guidance on Income Eligibility Determinations and Duration
SP11 CACFP06 SFSP11-2014 Effective Date of Free or Reduced Price Meal Eligibility Determinations
Proposed Rule: NSLP and SBP Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2013-2014)
Page updated: November 20, 2019