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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Direct Certification with Medicaid
Area Eligibility
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
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 #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast 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 #32 Nationwide Waiver to Extend Area Eligibility Waivers through August 31, 2020
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Verification Toolkit
SFSP01-2019 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
SP41-2017 2018 Direct Certification Improvement Grant RFA
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
CACFP10-2017 Taking Food Components Offsite in the At-Risk Afterschool Component of CACFP
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
School Meals Application Materials in Farsi
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2016-2017)
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
SP30-2014 Determining Eligibility for Two Cent Differential Reimbursement in New Schools
Community Eligibility Provision Evaluation
CACFP07 SFSP12-2014 Guidance on Income Eligibility Determinations and Duration
Attachments to SP12-2014: RFA for Participation in Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Direct Certification with Medicaid in SY 2014-15
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
SP54-2013 Transmittal of Q&As on Computation of Direct Certification Performance Rate with SNAP
SP50-2013 Release of the New State Agency Direct Certification Rate Data Element Report (Form FNS-834)
Direct Certification Grants Program Proposal Response Guidance
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2013-2014)
CACFP06 SFSP11-2013 Eligibility Based on Census Data: 2013 Data Release
SP 06-2013, CACFP 03-2013, SFSP 03-2013 Determining Area Eligibility Based on School Data
Page updated: November 20, 2019