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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Guidance on Performance Standards, Budgets, and Management Plans in the SFSP
Evaluating and Approving SFSP Budgets
Best Practices for Meal Claim Verification of Self-Prep Sites
Area Eligibility
FNS-898 Serving Adult Participants in the CACFP
FNS-898-S Sirviendo a los participantes adultos en el Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos del USDA
Ofrecimiento del agua en el Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos del USDA
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
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
900 Offering Water in the USDA CACFP
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
Meal Talk: School Breakfast
CACFP Meal Pattern Training Worksheets
Hojas de capacitación del patrón de comidas para el Programa de Alimentos para el Cuidado de Niños y Adultos (CACFP)
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
Herramientas de capacitación para el CACFP
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
CACFP Training Tools: Appendices
Best Practices: Sponsor Retention
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
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
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