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Date FNS Document# Title
CACFP 05-2024 Implementation Guidance: State Agency Review Requirements
Serious Deficiency Process in the CACFP and SFSP
Child Nutrition Programs: Income Eligibility Guidelines (2024-2025)
SP 07-2024, CACFP 03-2024 Updated Instructions for the SAE Recovery Process and SAE Financial Status Report
SP 04-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: State Agency Discretion for Repeat Meal Pattern Violations Fiscal Action
SP 03-2024 Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule: Administrative Review & FSMC Review Cycles
Area Eligibility
Child Nutrition: Program Integrity Final Rule
Initial Implementation Memo: Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule
Final Rule: Child Nutrition Program Integrity
Flyer for Households to Encourage School Meal Enrollment
Translated Applications
School Meals Application Materials in Spanish
Applying for Free and Reduced Price School Meals
Determining Eligibility for Free and Reduced Price Meals and Free Milk
CACFP National Disqualified List
SP 02-2023 Determining Eligibility for Severe Need Reimbursement Rates for the School Breakfast Program and the Two Cent Differential Reimbursement for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2023-24
Meal Benefit Income Eligibility Form
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
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2018-2019)
Webinar: Verification Toolkit and Beginning Verification Before October 1
SP36 CACFP15 SFSP11-2017 Eligibility Manual for School Meals
Integrity Features of a Web-based School Meal Application
Child Nutrition Programs Income Eligibility Guidelines (2017-2018)
SP20-2017 Community Eligibility Provision: Annual Notification and Publication Requirements
USDA School Meals Prototype Application Disclaimer
Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Report to Congress: State Implementation Progress, SY 2014-15
SP08 CACFP04, SFSP03-2017 Area Eligibility in Child Nutrition Programs
Second Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification Study (APEC II): Estimating and Validating Statistical Models for Updating Estimates of Improper Payments in NSLP and SBP
Examining the Potential to Expand Data Matching in the School Meal Program Eligibility and Verification Processes
Approaches to Measuring Erroneous Payments in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program At The State Level
School Meals Application Materials in Nepali
School Meals Application Materials in Kru
School Meals Application Materials in Thai
School Meals Application Materials in Sudanese
School Meals Application Materials in Khmer
School Meals Application Materials in Punjabi
School Meals Application Materials in Ukranian
School Meals Application Materials in Karen
Page updated: November 20, 2019