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Date FNS Document# Title
Serious Deficiency Process in the CACFP and SFSP
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP
State Guidance on Pandemic EBT
Area Eligibility
Timeline for Enhancing USDA Summer Nutrition Programs
CACFP 08-2023, SFSP 10-2023 Best Practices for Streamlining Applications for Year-Round Program Operations
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
Community Eligibility Provision - Summary of Proposed Rule
Extension of Comment Period - CNP Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent with the 2020 DGAs
School Meal Standards Comparison Chart
Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP Webinar
CN Flexibilities for Summer 2022 and School Year 2022-23
Final Rule: Streamlining Program Requirements and Improving Integrity in the SFSP
USDA Secretary Vilsack Letter to States for SY 2022-23
Transitioning to Standard Operations in the Child Nutrition Programs and the Keep Kids Fed Act of 2022: Follow-Up Questions and Answers from Webinars
School Meals Application Materials in French
Child Nutrition Response #114 Nationwide Waiver of the Summer Sponsor Application Deadline and to Allow Reimbursement for Meals Served Prior to Notification of Approval for Summer 2022 Operations
Overview of the Keep Kids Fed Act and New Supply Chain Assistance Funding
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
SP 10-2022, CACFP 08-2022, SFSP 04-2022 Area Eligibility for Summer 2022 and School Year 2022-23
Transitioning to Normal Child Nutrition Operations: Additional Waiver Opportunities
Summer Feeding Requirements - Summer 2022 Comparison Table
Transitioning to Normal Child Nutrition Operations
Nationwide Waivers of Child Nutrition Monitoring
Child Nutrition: Questions and Answers related to COVID-19
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #106 Nationwide Waiver for Selected Child Nutrition Program Reporting Requirements
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #90 (Corrected) Nationwide Waiver to Allow Specific School Meal Pattern Flexibility for SY 2021-22
Pandemic EBT – State Plans for 2021-22
SP19-2021 Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Operations for SY 2021-22 during COVID-19
SP17 CACFP15 SFSP09-2021 COVID-19 Waiver Requests Submitted Prior to December 31, 2020
SP15 CACFP13 SFSP08-2021 Questions and Answers for Child Nutrition Program Operations in SY 2021-22
Child Nutrition Response #98 Nationwide Waiver of Local School Wellness Policy Triennial Assessments in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #97 Nationwide Waiver to Provide Flexibility for School Meal Programs Administrative Reviews of SFAs Operating Only the SSO in SY 2021-22
Information Collection: Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer
SP10 CACFP09 SFSP05-2021 Questions and Answers Regarding Child Nutrition Program Oversight, Administration, and Reporting During COVID-19
Pandemic EBT – Summer 2021
Oversight Plan Waiver
School Meals Operations Study: Evaluation of the COVID-19 Child Nutrition Waivers and Child Nutrition Programs
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #84 Child Nutrition Nationwide Waiver Update for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #94 Nationwide Waiver of Onsite Monitoring Requirements in the School Meal Programs – Revised – EXTENSION 3
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #93 Nationwide Waiver of Area Eligibility in the Afterschool Programs and for Family Day Care Home Providers in SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #92 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Offer Versus Serve Flexibility for Senior High Schools in SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #89 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Parents and Guardians to Pick Up Meals for Children for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #88 Nationwide Waiver of Meal Times Requirements for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #87 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Non-Congregate Meal Service for SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #86 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Summer Food Service Program Reimbursement Rates in SY 2021-22
Child Nutrition Response #85 Nationwide Waiver to Allow the Seamless Summer Option through SY 2021-22
COVID–19: Child Nutrition Response #83 Nationwide Waiver to Allow Sponsors that Successfully Participated in the SFSP in FY 2019 to Operate as Experienced Sponsors in FY 2021
Page updated: November 20, 2019