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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Area Eligibility
FNS-631 Menu Planner for School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
The Whole Grain Resource for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
School Meals Application Materials in French
899 Serving Meats and Meat Alternates at Lunch and Supper in the USDA CACFP
Food Buying Guide for Child Nutrition Programs
FNS-896 Offering Meats and Meat Alternates at School Breakfast
897 Offering Smoothies as Part of Reimbursable School Meals
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
Grain-Based Desserts in the CACFP
Medio tiempo del CACFP: Postres a base de granos en el CACFP
SFSP01-2019 Summer Food Service Program Memoranda Rescission
Planificacion de comidas para el CACFP
CACFP Halftime: Thirty on Thursday - Menu Planning
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
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
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
Voluntary Menu Labeling in the NSLP and SBP
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
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