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Date FNS Document# Title
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
State Guidance on Pandemic EBT
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Pandemic EBT – Summer 2023
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Local School Wellness Policies
School Meals Application Materials in French
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
Nutrition Standards for School Meals
Pandemic EBT – State Plans for 2021-22
Information Collection: Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #82 Community Eligibility Provision Deadlines in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
P-EBT Guidance for Schools and Child Care
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
Professional Standards
Tools for Schools: Focusing on Smart Snacks
Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2019-2020)
Verification Toolkit
Unpaid Meal Charges
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
SP 05-2018, CACFP 05-2018 Providing Child Nutrition Program Benefits to Disaster Survivor Evacuees
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
SP29-2017 2017 Edition: Overcoming the Unpaid Meal Challenge - Proven Strategies from Our Nation’s Schools
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
Comment Request - Evaluation of the Direct Certification With Medicaid for Free and Reduced-Price (DCM-F/RP) Meals Demonstrations
Final Rule: Local School Wellness Policy Implementation Under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010; Approval of Information Collection Request
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
School Nutrition Program Operations Study - SY 2012-13
SP43-2016 Ensuring Access to Free and Reduced Price School Meals for Low-Income Students
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: Administrative Reviews in the School Nutrition Programs
Final Rule: National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program: Nutrition Standards for All Foods Sold in School as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
Final Rule: Eliminating Applications Through Community Eligibility as Required by the HHFKA of 2010
School Meals Application Materials in Farsi
SP48 CACFP16 SFSP16-2016 Using Federal Funds to Support FoodCorps Service Members
SP46-2016 Unpaid Meal Charges: Local Meal Charge Policies
Comment Request - Food Program Reporting System (FPRS)
Comment Request: Community Eligibility Provision Characteristics Study
Comment Request - Professional Standards Training Tracker Tool
Comment Request - Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk in Schools
Final Rule: CACFP Meal Pattern Revisions Related to the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010
Page updated: November 20, 2019